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Maybe people notice that techcrunch articles get upvoted. Hence they submit TC articles (to get karma. humans love to have more than their fellow of anything: g
by luser001 15y ago
Maybe people notice that techcrunch articles get upvoted. Hence they submit TC articles (to get karma. humans love to have more than their fellow of anything: green beans, salt rocks, pieces of paper etc).
This can be addressed in two ways:
1) Randomly allow a subset of users to upvote article (like slashdot's moderation system).
2) Cap karma from articles.
Sorry if I'm massively mistaken and people don't get karma from article submissions.
- jaredsohn 15y agoPeople do get karma from article submissions. Several ideas related to limiting the influence of article submissions were made here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554
- cpeterso 15y agoI also wonder if people repost a different article/URL for the same news story, hoping their post will be the one to get upvoted.
- rhizome 15y agoYou'd think so, but if you look at both the comments and submissions of "sdtransfer," the poster of this article, they don't seem like they'd be terribly hope-y.