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If anything, I think it just highlights the need to separate submission and comment karma or do away with submission karma entirely. (Good) comments add to the
by cletus 15y ago
If anything, I think it just highlights the need to separate submission and comment karma or do away with submission karma entirely. (Good) comments add to the conversation. Submitting is just pasting a link.
It's come up on HN before that popular blogs have bots running against them that post new articles to HN as soon as they appear on the RSS feed. I don't really care about the karma side of this but it encourages behaviour in some that just adds noise to HN (IMHO).
As for the polls, there have been a lot these last few days. Not excessively so but we might want to lay off for a few days. Some of the comments have been interesting. The results of the polls themselves are completely meaningless.
EDIT: to clarify, voluntary polls are meaningless. Properly conducted polls with random sampling are of course an effective tool. Of course, none of the HN polls fall into this category (hence "meaningless" in terms of results).
- SquareWheel 15y agoI was pretty surprised to learn that the HN crowd prefer OS X, but yes internet polls (and really, all polls) can't be taken seriously. There has been a small influx lately.
- sounds 15y agoThis poll seems to indicate that it's an even split between OS X and Linux: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3786674 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3786674
- jaredsohn 15y agoIf you go to any tech event in the Bay Area (at least) and people have their computers with them, often > 95% of people have Macs.
- calpaterson 15y agoI'm surprised that you were surprised. Around me, there has been a huge and obvious increase over the last few years in OSX market share among startup-profile developers.
- benologist 15y agoI think getting rid of submission karma is a great idea.
- noarchy 15y agoI tend to agree. A lucky throwaway account can end up with hundreds of karma points just for getting there 'first' on an item, or being the one that got upvoted enough to be noticed.