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Here's the front page from 10 years ago if people want to compare: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2010-10-07 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2010
by DanBC 6y ago
Here's the front page from 10 years ago if people want to compare: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2010-10-07 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2010-10-07
- mturmon 6y agoOP complains about being drawn to post comments to harvest karma. IIRC, 10 years ago, the comment karma was displayed next to the comment itself. This was removed because it was generating positive vote feedback loops (reinforcing both upvotes and downvotes). I'm not suggesting simple technical fixes can be enough to remove the objections such as OP -- rather, that both a continuous oversight of technical stuff, and granular moderation, seem to be needed.
- sradman 6y agoAnother technical fix might be separating Submission karma from Comment karma. I'm guessing that good Comment karma is associated with civility and adherence to community norms. That assumption could be validated by someone with access to the underlying data. I agree that continuous oversight by quality moderators like dang are probably more important than technical tweaks.