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How on earth are you able to live without your reddit karma? I mean, I don't own a house or have a family, but at least I have 475 reddit points.
by brunoqc 3y ago
How on earth are you able to live without your reddit karma? I mean, I don't own a house or have a family, but at least I have 475 reddit points.
- samwillis 3y agoHN Karma obviously!
- revskill 3y agoWhat's the point of HN Karma honestly ?
- samwillis 3y agoEndorphins when you see it going up.
- tazjin 3y agoSome HN features are gated on karma.
- warning26 3y agoOnce you have more than 500, you unlock downvotes! Worth it for that alone.
- revskill 3y agoDoes HN have any guidance on when and why to downvote ? Or just personally ?
- tmpob 3y agoIn my experience it's when you post something that someone has a strong opposing opinion about. Same for flagging, seems to be treated as a super-downvote most of the time.
- cratermoon 3y agoIn the guidelines, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html see the section "In Comments". Comments violating those guidelines are reasonable candidates for downvoting.
- revskill 3y ago[flagged]
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoPaul Graham has posted his thoughts about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 I think that sites really shouldn't have guidance on this sort of thing, because nobody would follow it anyway. If you only have upvotes and downvotes, people are just going to upvote stuff they like and downvote stuff they don't like, and any individual will have different rules about what "like" or "doesn't like" means to them. Waaaaay back in the day, I did like how Slashdot had different categories for voting, e.g. "Insightful", "Funny", "Off topic", etc.
- PrimeMcFly 3y ago
- freitzkriesler2 3y agoDownvoting. But it's easy to karma whore up to 500.
- sowerssix 3y agoI'm not even sure how I got to 2. I rarely bother to comment, yet here we are.
- 0zemp3c 3y agoreplacement for real life achievement
- red-iron-pine 3y agomake the groupthink easier to track via API
- nickpeterson 3y agoI trade mine in for its current dollar value by messaging pg and he wires over the cash.
- egeozcan 3y agoAre you really asking what's the point of having... points? They are points!
- _cenw 3y agoI would absolutely trade in public displays of karma for having a random username assigned to every one of my posts with my history being obscured while still keeping track of "karma" for moderation / feature gating.
- dfxm12 3y agoNot sure if you mean keeping track of total upvotes or just the voting system in general. In either case, just for a start, I think discussions are easier to have & follow along with when someone can just upvote a comment to engage in the discussion vs posting something like "+1" or "^ this" or "I agree", and the number is the same feedback in lieu of meaningless posts. Voting also helps with ordering (as opposed to time based ordering), whether your total karma is displayed or not.
- paulddraper 3y agoThat deep feeling of fulfillment.
- krapp 3y agoThe same point everywhere - to drive discussion to popular posts and away from unpopular posts, and to encourage conformity to board culture through operant conditioning and gamification. If you give people a number and tell them that number is special, they'll do whatever they can to make that number go up, and to avoid whatever makes it go down. At least in theory. In practice it's utterly useless because it's based on incorrect (or possibly outdated) assumptions about the nature and goals of HN's userbase (which I've decided to call the "good hacker" fallacy.)
- bckr 3y agoTo give you dreams like the done I had last night where I lost 6 points and decided to delete my comment so I wouldn’t lose any more.
- ilyt 3y agoSee the key is to get into thousands and not care about 0.1% changes either way. Bollock enough and someone will upvote it.
- swayvil 3y agoIt empowers us to disappear distasteful opinions.
- MSFT_Edging 3y agoThat sweet ability to downvote.
- JohnFen 3y agoImpressing the ladies!
- tazjin 3y agoGood news: Your karma stays around even after you delete all your posts/comments!
- chaostheory 3y agoBad news: it depends on how you delete your comments. If you just delete your comments via the delete button, Reddit will still archive your last 1000 comments and posts. Not sure how shreddit and other similar apps work, but I think you need to update and replace your old posts with something blank like a space before you delete them. My knowledge might be out of date, so feel free to point out that I’m wrong.
- barbazoo 3y agoIt replaces the comment with a predefined string: https://github.com/x89/Shreddit/blob/master/shreddit/shredder.py#L115-L128 https://github.com/x89/Shreddit/blob/master/shreddit/shredde...
- freitzkriesler2 3y agoI laughed.
- numpad0 3y ago475? Not 47.5k? I think you can easily have 7.5k per 3 months or so on Reddit. HN is way harder.
- stefncb 3y agoThe average upvote count for comments here is 5, anecdotally. On reddit it can be in the dozens, even hundreds depending on subreddit. My abandoned reddit account I had for 2 years had 39k karma, and I wasn't obsessed.
- ilyt 3y agoI disagree, it's extremely easy on both. Like, sure, it is slower on HN but community is also smaller
- vidanay 3y agoYeah, my most recent throwaway Reddit account has 62.5k in only 9 months.
- EMCymatics 3y agoIt is impossible to interact in some subreddits if you dont have xyz karma or have a # weeks old account
- red-iron-pine 3y agofor most sites like that... i probably don't want to be there anyway. except HN of course
- hello_moto 3y agoYou don't interact. Let them die slowly.
- PaulHoule 3y agoIt is the normal lifecycle that platforms die. Look at MySpace.
- hello_moto 3y agoYou don't interact. Let them die slowly. Reddit interaction is meaningless echo chamber anyway. What's the point to get your "2c" heard in Reddit? Redditors are the minorities.
- penultimatename 3y agoI'm going to miss the computer hardware sell/trade subreddits, they're one of the most active I've found and saves 20-40% over eBay or similar. All require a minimum account age and karma to reduce the risk of scammers.
- jmondi 3y agoCurious why you are contributing here? Arguably, Hacker News is a lot of an echo chamber too. What’s the point to get your “2c” heard on Hacker News? Hacker News users are even more of a minority than Redditors.
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- ok_dad 3y agoPfff, I’m collecting HN points for a rainy day; they’re worth at least 10 Reddit points each!
- egeozcan 3y agoEvery time someone down-votes me here, they kill my future, bit by bit.
- lyu07282 3y agoI have ~100k on reddit, but somehow hacker news managed to make my ~500 points feel far more valuable.
- 13of40 3y agoMan, those are Hacker News numbers. About 300 times as many people have upvoted my drunken rants on Reddit.
- ilyt 3y agoThat's like whole week of commenting!
- corobo 3y agoHopefully one day we can redeem it for cash with all that API money they're making off the posts that generated it :)
- nerdbert 3y agoThere was a time when you could get bitcoin for your reddit karma... back when spending several bitcoin for a pizza was a thing.