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Upvoted comments are directly related to the user's comments, and thus the user, so that makes sense. Articles are not related to the user* posting them. It's b
by Ultramanoid 7y ago
Upvoted comments are directly related to the user's comments, and thus the user, so that makes sense. Articles are not related to the user* posting them. It's basically random unless I'm missing something.
Like I said, I upvote all submitters of the same article because otherwise it seems wrong given how karma works now. But we shouldn't have to do that.
Edit : * With the exception of Ask HN or Show HN, I suppose. But the vast majority of links are from external sites and submitted several times by different users.
- dang 7y agoStories are the life blood of HN. Without stories, no comments, and no Hacker News. So it doesn't make sense to reward them less. I agree that there's an issue with randomness about which submission of an article gets the karma. It's on our list to do something about that. But it does even out in the long run for anyone who submits many good stories. And I don't think most HN users care about karma too much.