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I completely agree. I think the submission makes an incorrect assumption that valuable users contribute regularly. Certainly regularity isn't baked in to any k
by alanfalcon 15y ago
I completely agree.
I think the submission makes an incorrect assumption that valuable users contribute regularly. Certainly regularity isn't baked in to any karma measures on HN right now, and I'd expect that's be design rather than a flaw to be corrected.
- eric-hu 15y agoI have to disagree...somewhat. Since Reddit is open source, I could create a copy right now that would have no content on it. Lets say I populated it with all of the old, highly rated posts. This would be valuable as a source of high quality content, but has less value to me because it lacks current events and interaction with other users. I said 'somewhat' because there clearly is a value in having high quality content, so I see it as a trade off. I think there's a market for both high-quality/low-volume sites as well as lower-quality/higher-volume sites.
- thesz 15y agoI second this and I should add that I often do a search on HN and upvote comments in quite old discussions. Just as a gesture of gratitude. Those OP measures don't account for that, I think.