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No. Point system is broken and encourages groupthink. This place is still the best forum for hackers because most people are not here for points.
by gaika 18y ago
No. Point system is broken and encourages groupthink. This place is still the best forum for hackers because most people are not here for points.
- ideamonk 18y agoYes, the end part of what you say is really true!
- stcredzero 18y ago"Point system is broken and encourages groupthink." Is that so different from how society works? There may be no numbers displayed, but a lot of society works through affirmations of one kind of another.
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- gaika 18y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196390 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196390 , society is using subjective reputation system so it is less affected by groupthink.
- thaumaturgy 18y agoI don't understand this. When a forum tries to focus on a small number of topics, people accuse it of "groupthink". When a forum doesn't try to focus on a small number of topics, people accuse it of being the next Reddit, or Digg, or whatever. For that matter, you should know better than to throw around the "groupthink" accusation, when your own project encourages people to tune out everything that they think they don't like, until they only see things that they'll like anyway. Let's use something a little more descriptive than "groupthink".