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Once you come up with a really, really good way to correlate karma with a user's quality of posts/comments, maybe try to come up with a purpose for karma.
by mynameishere 19y ago
Once you come up with a really, really good way to correlate karma with a user's quality of posts/comments, maybe try to come up with a purpose for karma.
- pg 19y agoThe purpose of karma on any site like this (all the way back to slashdot) is to motivate people by giving them a measure of what their peers think of their contributions.
- mynameishere 19y agoI mean a purpose that would, for example, prevent reddit from turning into digg.
- pg 19y agoI actually have a plan for this. It's built into the current sw but not turned on. It hasn't been needed so far, and may never be because of Startup News's narrow focus. If I reuse the code to make a general news site, as I've been thinking I might, I'll certainly turn it on.