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Karma is an absolutely terrible metric to use - jaybol has 3,316 karma and his job is to make infographic spam and submit stuff to social sites, quite obviously
by benologist 16y ago
Karma is an absolutely terrible metric to use - jaybol has 3,316 karma and his job is to make infographic spam and submit stuff to social sites, quite obviously including HN.
- tptacek 16y agoI read this, thought, "whoah, really? That's damning!" and took at a look at 'jaybol (who I'd never heard of). This is an unfair summary of that user. His top submissions on SearchYC aren't infographics. Infographic spam may be his job, but he submits diverse and interesting articles to the site and that's where his karma comes from.
- benologist 16y agoHe's paid to make those submissions whether it's an infographic his company produced or a blog post they didn't. If that's not spam then what is it? From one angle HN is just a traffic source for user submitted content and that makes it a target for people/sites/companies who aren't invested in the community that is the value.
- tptacek 16y agoAgain: I am not arguing with you about whether he's a spammer or not. I have no idea if he is. I'm saying, when I look at his top submissions, they aren't low-quality.