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Really? With 200+ karma you wouldn't be willing to knock someone down every once in awhile... ya know, take one for the team? I'm below 50 karma atm. and I th
by cconstantine 18y ago
Really? With 200+ karma you wouldn't be willing to knock someone down every once in awhile... ya know, take one for the team?
I'm below 50 karma atm. and I think it might be worth it once in awhile. I'd rather have this place be a good community than gobble up karma. All it takes is for a small percentage of suckers like me to knock down the truly awful posts into obscurity.
I'm not even sure if I like people knowing exactly what causes karma to move. Allowing people to know the rules of the game invites people to 'game' the system for more points. Is the point of the site to get lots of karma, or to build a worthwhile community?
At any rate. I wouldn't say it's a dismal idea.
- raganwald 18y agoReally? With 200+ karma you wouldn't be willing to knock someone down every once in awhile... ya know, take one for the team? If certain things cost karma, karma becomes currency. You earn it in order to spend it on stuff you want to do. Like downvoting.
- Mystalic 18y agoI personally don't want to see Karma become currency. I'm part of a message board that does something like that, and its quality of posters has dropped over the years.
- cconstantine 18y agoYeah, there's something about karma that makes people go crazy. Maybe it has something to do with people wanting validation. I don't get it. I know pg uses this place as a kind of 'extended interview' for YC, and I"m guessing he uses karma when evaluating someone. If karma really does corrupt perhaps it'd be best to hide it from users? I don't really have an answer. I'm simply not convinced this idea of costing karma to down vote someone is a bad idea.