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There is no scarcity with upvotes. If I have an infinite amount of money to spend, I will spend it without prudence. Cap the number of upvotes that a user get

by pkaler 16y ago

There is no scarcity with upvotes. If I have an infinite amount of money to spend, I will spend it without prudence. Cap the number of upvotes that a user gets each day and give explicit feedback on how many upvotes that they have left.

tptacek 16y ago
Past N votes in a day, a vote should cost a karma point.
vukk 16y ago
I think this is indeed a low hanging fruit. Upvoting should have some negative side effect or limit that makes you think for a split second if you really want to do it. In articles: personally I only upvote only those articles that I really want to see in my "saved stories". So one might make voting comments clutter something for the voter and I think that most hackers like to keep things beautiful, clean and searchable if possible. Might work better for articles than comments though.
staunch 16y ago
Perlmonks does this, and based on your total karma you are given a higher daily limit to spend. Works quite well.
- bootload 16y ago
  "... Perlmonks does this, and based on your total karma you are given a higher daily limit to spend. Works quite well. ..." I always think of the Perlmonk progression as a good idea. It will require a radical departure in use/interaction and might be seen as too controlled. PM had the advantage of doing this from the start (as far as I know) PM #244776
  - btilly 16y ago
    Perlmonks had that as part of the structure from the time I arrived there. Which was in the first few months.
    - bootload 16y ago
      "... Perlmonks had that as part of the structure from the time I arrived there. ..." It certainly works. I always go there ready to really think twice before I post & you learn. HN appears to be more OpEd a lot of the times.
      - btilly 16y ago
        Perlmonks certainly works. However I don't think that the level system is the reason. My opinion is that the real reason is that a good community was established early, and then a focused remit maintained it. Ironically that is one of the reasons why I lost interest. My interests moved on. A small fraction of the conversations taught me anything interesting. And so I drifted away. However the focused remit is essential for maintaining that community as it is, even if I am no longer that big a part of it. Incidentally I am http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=tilly http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=tilly there, and http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=754085 http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=754085 describes some of the early history of how it came to be as it is.

by pkaler 16y ago

tptacek 16y ago

Past N votes in a day, a vote should cost a karma point.

vukk 16y ago

I think this is indeed a low hanging fruit. Upvoting should have some negative side effect or limit that makes you think for a split second if you really want to do it. In articles: personally I only upvote only those articles that I really want to see in my "saved stories". So one might make voting comments clutter something for the voter and I think that most hackers like to keep things beautiful, clean and searchable if possible. Might work better for articles than comments though.

staunch 16y ago

Perlmonks does this, and based on your total karma you are given a higher daily limit to spend. Works quite well.

bootload 16y ago
"... Perlmonks does this, and based on your total karma you are given a higher daily limit to spend. Works quite well. ..." I always think of the Perlmonk progression as a good idea. It will require a radical departure in use/interaction and might be seen as too controlled. PM had the advantage of doing this from the start (as far as I know) PM #244776
- btilly 16y ago
  Perlmonks had that as part of the structure from the time I arrived there. Which was in the first few months.
  - bootload 16y ago
    "... Perlmonks had that as part of the structure from the time I arrived there. ..." It certainly works. I always go there ready to really think twice before I post & you learn. HN appears to be more OpEd a lot of the times.
    - btilly 16y ago
      Perlmonks certainly works. However I don't think that the level system is the reason. My opinion is that the real reason is that a good community was established early, and then a focused remit maintained it. Ironically that is one of the reasons why I lost interest. My interests moved on. A small fraction of the conversations taught me anything interesting. And so I drifted away. However the focused remit is essential for maintaining that community as it is, even if I am no longer that big a part of it. Incidentally I am http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=tilly http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=tilly there, and http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=754085 http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=754085 describes some of the early history of how it came to be as it is.