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Simple answer - Submissions are more important than Comments for News.YC ;-). If comments were given more weight tending towards that of submissions, people w
by nurall 19y ago
Simple answer - Submissions are more important than Comments for News.YC ;-).
If comments were given more weight tending towards that of submissions, people would have trouble moving onto the next submission, in the process of accumulating karma. I am sure YC wants people to add value through new/novel submissions.
- immad 19y agoI think aston means that he thinks he gets a full point for his comment, Not what the justification of the 0.5 factor is. I wasn't sure on this, but I didn't think it was straight 1 point so the 0.5 might be right, I am sure other people have more evidence.
- nurall 19y agoSorry about that aston and immad. Even I believe its not 0.5 deterministically, but I think it averages to 0.5. The system appears far more adaptive/dynamic than a completely deterministic model as suggested by the formula. But again, its a model. My friend, up-voted me once each for two separate comments, but my Karma remained the same. As a matter of fact, I observed something similar with the submissions as well. This could imply the following - 1. Karma calculation is not interrupt driven, but its timeout based (I probably hadn't waited long enough!) OR 2. The weight for the comments (/submissions?) could be a function of user Karma, with an average of 0.5 (I probably did wait long enough!) OR 3. My friend's up-voting was suspicious (Highly doubt it!!) My bet is on 1 and/or 3.
- aston 19y agoHow'd your friend up vote the same comment twice? As far as I know, the system only counts one vote per user per comment or post.
- nurall 19y agoErrata - My friend up-voted me on two different comments, once each. My score should have increased by 1 Karma point going by the 0.5 weight for comments, but it did not, immediately.