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HN Karma obviously!
by samwillis 3y ago
HN 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!