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That creates a strong bias for people with lots of time on their hands which I reckon tips the voting bias towards people not actually running a startup.
by wheels 18y ago
That creates a strong bias for people with lots of time on their hands which I reckon tips the voting bias towards people not actually running a startup.
- narag 18y agoI don't understand. What exactly does create strong bias?
- wheels 18y agoKarma isn't a function of usefulness to the community, it's a function of time spent on the site, broadly speaking. As such, I suspect that those that have the most experience with startups on average tend to be below the mean in the karma pool. Thus giving those with the most karma an additional boost in shaping the site dynamics would push the site further in the direction of "fans of startups" as opposed to "people working on startups".
- create_account 18y agoOr fans of PG. Anything he posts automatically gets double digits of upvotes in minutes.
- davidw 18y agoAren't most people here fans of his to some degree? I mean, I don't accept his writing as The Word of Landru, but I thought most people found the site due to his writings and linking to it?
- davidw 18y agoI kind of wonder if PG/YC would reject the top karma people out of hand as time wasters:-)