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I'm stumped these days on how to handle dupes. I had been deleting them when folks pointed them out (except the print version over the multipage one). But here

by robg 18y ago

I'm stumped these days on how to handle dupes. I had been deleting them when folks pointed them out (except the print version over the multipage one). But here it's apparent that a bunch of folks didn't see the original. I wish I could transfer the karma points to you, or link this submission to the original, though I imagine that would introduce many more new complications. What do other folks think about duplicates?

davidw 18y ago
> What do other folks think about duplicates? I don't really care - unless pg creates some kind of market for the karma points I have accumulated, they're worthless (like ideas?:-)
- robg 18y ago
  Why do folks (hint, hint) point them out though? I can't say my memory is good enough to recognize dupes. I know on a few occasions I've submitted something I had previously submitted.
  - davidw 18y ago
    Shrug... part ego gratification, part "hey, this system might be better at catching these things".
- eru 18y ago
  I thought about creating a prediction market where you can gamble away your karma.
  - maxwell 18y ago
    As others have said before, the trouble with contemporary karma implementations (like here and on reddit) is that everyone has unlimited upvote potential and it doesn't cost anything to post. This means karma totals are more or less "chronocratic" -- those who spend the most time on the site have the loudest voice and those who submit the most invariably have the highest karma. (The only exception seems to be dhh, who has, let's see, 259 points for 18 posts. I can't find pg's post giving the highest per post average stats (SearchYC seems to be down), but dhh's 14.4 is certainly an outlier.) So, I don't think any kind of market using current karma as the currency would work at all. Karma will only start becoming dangerous (in raganwald's sense) when it's transactional and capped, and thus scarce, and thus competitive with national currencies as a wealth proxy.
    - eru 18y ago
      I would just use the karma on this site as a credit limit. Of course if my market became more important than hacker news I could not just piggy back any longer because it would pay to hack your karma up here.
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by robg 18y ago

davidw 18y ago

> What do other folks think about duplicates? I don't really care - unless pg creates some kind of market for the karma points I have accumulated, they're worthless (like ideas?:-)

robg 18y ago
Why do folks (hint, hint) point them out though? I can't say my memory is good enough to recognize dupes. I know on a few occasions I've submitted something I had previously submitted.
- davidw 18y ago
  Shrug... part ego gratification, part "hey, this system might be better at catching these things".
eru 18y ago
I thought about creating a prediction market where you can gamble away your karma.
- maxwell 18y ago
  As others have said before, the trouble with contemporary karma implementations (like here and on reddit) is that everyone has unlimited upvote potential and it doesn't cost anything to post. This means karma totals are more or less "chronocratic" -- those who spend the most time on the site have the loudest voice and those who submit the most invariably have the highest karma. (The only exception seems to be dhh, who has, let's see, 259 points for 18 posts. I can't find pg's post giving the highest per post average stats (SearchYC seems to be down), but dhh's 14.4 is certainly an outlier.) So, I don't think any kind of market using current karma as the currency would work at all. Karma will only start becoming dangerous (in raganwald's sense) when it's transactional and capped, and thus scarce, and thus competitive with national currencies as a wealth proxy.
  - eru 18y ago
    I would just use the karma on this site as a credit limit. Of course if my market became more important than hacker news I could not just piggy back any longer because it would pay to hack your karma up here.

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