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Suggest HN: earn karma for each flag after your own?
There's lots of garbage on the /newest page with no incentive to police it. A new post requires something like 5 flags within an hour to be flagged into non-existence.
Since flagging away bad content is as important for overall quality as upvoting good content, I think flaggers should receive a karma point for each time the post is flagged after they've done it.
While I'm here, maybe a few more people can chip in on the new page, being more liberal with upvotes than you would be on the homepage, and flagging some of the junk. Rad.
- RealGeek 15y agoThis may lead to a herd mentality and few users will flag every post they can find to earn karma. The bad content does not get up votes and automatically goes down hill.
- atheken 15y agoI'm flagging this post.
- mooism2 15y agoPeople already flag spam on the new page and I don't think we need another incentive to flag it. If this change was brought in, it would need to be paired with some disincentive to discourage gratuitous flagging.
- pohl 15y agoBrilliant suggestion. If HN needs anything it's more ruthless culling.
- lazugod 15y agoThat would not be discoverable.