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When I see stories like this I wish there was some way on Hacker News that I could spend some of my karma points to give this story more than one up vote.

• Talanes 6y ago
  As someone who's still internalized pre-voting internet discussions, and just reads things without voting 99% of the time, I saw your comment and upvoted. Some real karma for you :)
  • Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
    I run a problem validation forum[1] where I'm experimenting with the karma system; one can donate karma to 'Down Vote' but not for an 'Up Vote'. 'Up Vote' privileges requires minimal karma(2), 'Down Vote' privileges are rather high(20). Karma is visible only to the owner and the moderators. Rationale being, people shouldn't be discouraged to post their problems however small or trivial it may sound and others to share possible ideas to solve that problem or existing solutions without any prejudice. Ofcourse this raises the issue of people not willing to part their karma to maintain forum sanctity, but as of now that's manageable when compared to discouragement from down votes. [1]https://needgap.com https://needgap.com
    • MattGaiser 6y ago
      > Ofcourse this raises the issue of people not willing to part their karma to maintain forum sanctity, but as of now that's manageable when compared to discouragement from down votes. Not a problem on Stack Overflow. And the website is a neat concept too.
    • pas 6y ago
      Slashdot used probabilistic anonymized meta-moderation. I think that should be used to weigh people's karma. (So someone that is deemed very wise by the meta-moderators should have more "power".) I have no idea of the second order effects of this. Echo chambers are of course possible, just like without this. Maybe adding a third layer would help to reward people who help diversify and rationalize discussions, and so on.