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Do people post this stuff just to earn karma points? What use would this half-thought through data set provide? and who would use it? Can we NOT repeat the sam
by tcarnell 15y ago
Do people post this stuff just to earn karma points? What use would this half-thought through data set provide? and who would use it?
Can we NOT repeat the same polls again?
I suggest creating a Hacker News 'polls' section which lists a permanent list of polls ideally with a public data API and bonus points for a pub/sub mechanism to help 3rd party application developers build something that might actually be useful...
I'll even build it for you, but only if there is a purpose to it all.
- DanielStraight 15y agoI posted a high-karma-earning poll once ("Do you know C?"). I suspected if it caught on, I would earn a bunch of karma, but I posted it because I didn't think as many people knew C as seemed to be commonly assumed (and because I couldn't find a previous poll on the same topic). Sometimes you just want to know how reality aligns with common belief. Nevertheless, I think your idea is great.
- gbog 15y agoI think there should be a log softener applied to submission karma.
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