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I don't know if the 500 karma rule for enabling downvotes is enough any more with the number of throwaway accounts I see on here. If would be nice if the vote
by austincheney 7y ago
I don't know if the 500 karma rule for enabling downvotes is enough any more with the number of throwaway accounts I see on here. If would be nice if the vote history were visible for a given account to see if people were using temporary accounts for trolling the vote system. A single user with several throwaway accounts, each over 500 karma, could add a false perception of actual user activity.
- kuu 7y agoI'm not sure is that easy to achieve 500 karma with a throwaway account... Not to mention with many
- austincheney 7y agoHere are 2 of them with 4000 and 7000 karma. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21051459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21051459 Acquiring karma is a game. If you know how to play to game you can get a 1000 in a week easily. Its much easier to gain karma than lose karma though.
- rwmurrayVT 7y agoIdk.. I'm only at 357 and it's been years!
- Smithalicious 7y agoI only got 500 karma quite recently myself, though getting from 500 to 750 took no time at all. I think you could get karma pretty quickly if you really try hard for it by trying to get to posts as early as possible and saying the obvious thing that everyone is thinking, but I don't think you could really scale this up to a meaningful number of accounts. I don't think you could really do much damage, also because posts themselves (as opposed to comments) can't be downvoted (unless that's behind some other karma milestone I can't reach yet).