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A much easier change would be to simply not give users karma points for submissions. Karma only for comments. Those who object saying that there won't be any i
by revorad 16y ago
A much easier change would be to simply not give users karma points for submissions. Karma only for comments.
Those who object saying that there won't be any incentive left for submitting are clearly on HN only for the karma. It won't be so bad to lose them.
- notahacker 16y agoThe other reason in favour of doing that is that comments get both up and downvotes and therefore represent the net perceived value of the user's contributions. New post submitting is almost guaranteed to be upvoted. (I don't know whether flags give negative karma, but I'm pretty sure people flag less often for different reason)