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How about karma Avg. then?

• unimpressive 15y ago
  >How about karma Avg. then? Step one: Make new account Step two: Post Techcrunch or similar article guaranteed to hit the front page of HN. Step three: Use newfound insane karma average to upvote crap submissions. Step four: ??? Step five: Profit. I actually like "Remove submission karma.". That should stop the linkbait articles from people who have to have their play money.
  • paulsutter 15y ago
    Remove submission karma is a great idea. Right now the fastest way to get monster karma is to be the first to post a Paul Graham essay.
  • jaredsohn 15y ago
    I'm okay with removing submission karma. There are also a few other options for reducing the influence of submission karma that we should also consider: * Have a karma cap for submissions. It could, for example, only give one karma for every ten upvotes (rounded down to discourage people from posting many articles). There could also be a hard maximum. * Reward less karma if more people submitted the link manually. This gives less karma for popular things such as Paul Graham essays, TechCrunch articles, etc. When other people submit an article, it should still reward the article itself with upvotes, but it would make sense to reward the poster less since it is likely the story would have been posted anyway. These alternatives are better than removing submission karma in that they still reward people for posting interesting content, but are worse in that they make things a little more complicated.