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The karma system discourages duplication and it is worth its weight in gold just for that. Imagine if the 50 people that agree with a comment felt the need to c
by frossie 16y ago
The karma system discourages duplication and it is worth its weight in gold just for that. Imagine if the 50 people that agree with a comment felt the need to chime in. Whereas with karma you upvote and are done with it.
To a newbie, karma voting patterns have huge instructional value (at least they did for me)
HN without karma wouldn't be HN.
- cageface 16y agoWhy assume that everybody that upvotes now would take the time to "me too"? If anything what I see again and again is that some comment takes a quick lead in upvotes in a topic and dominates the conversation afterwards, despite being often followed by more interesting comments.