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...he said, and then refreshed HN.
by smogcutter 7y ago
...he said, and then refreshed HN.
- floatingatoll 7y agoPropose HN: 'Countless' experiment – hiding all karmic integers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19745267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19745267 Perhaps someday we'll get a week without them.
- sillysaurusx 7y agoNo chance. HN’s goal is to have every effective programmer in the world checking it at least once a week. Anything that gets in the way of that is de facto bad. (I’d love to be surprised, though.) You can get the same effect with a Tampermonkey script I wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456200 It even scrambles the karma count in your profile, so there’s no opportunity for karma to affect you.
- bitexploder 7y agoEverything in moderation, right? Including games we play for imaginary Karma. I must say, though, I generally like the way HN does it. It isn't nearly as in your face and I don't find that motivates my behavior very much.
- Consultant32452 7y agoIf I get too many positive karma posts in a row I start worrying I'm censoring myself too much. Positive karma usually means I'm just saying the most mainstream thing and that's boring.
- floatingatoll 7y agoThe proposal is to see if site behavior changes as a whole when integers are removed. Individual opt-in doesn't permit such a test, nor does permitting opt-out.
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- olalonde 7y agoI hope not. I actually miss seeing the karma count on individual comments, it made skimming a lot easier.