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Just gave the author a point. What's the exchange rate between whuffie and Hacker News points? How many get you a cup of coffee?
by mattmcknight 18y ago
Just gave the author a point. What's the exchange rate between whuffie and Hacker News points? How many get you a cup of coffee?
- michael_nielsen 18y agoI like it - an OpenKarma standard for karma trading between different sites, maybe with a central exchange and a floating exchange rate. "I'll trade two HN points for one point of your reddit karma".
- nuclear_eclipse 18y agoI should think that an HN karma point would be worth a lot more than half a reddit karma point! If anything, I'd say a HN:Reddit ratio of 1:10 or more...
- eru 18y agoI'll be the bookie (or broker) for you two.
- knome 18y agoAt rates that good HN will be the first victim of the great karma rushes. Spectators will establish threads and mine each other for karma until so much has been generated that even diggs will purchase multiple hackerbucks.
- llimllib 18y agoIt's OK, I'll start the Karma Currency Market and they'll reach equilibrium soon enough.
- dissenter 18y agoOn a related note, whuffie is not a new invention. There is no difference whatsoever between whuffie and money. They are perfectly synonymous. I get the feeling the author, and many of his readers, seem to believe that he has created something distinct from money (from the Wikipedia: 'Whuffie has replaced money...'). Whuffie, as a currency, is no more different from the dollar than the króna is from the euro. As a descriptor of currency in an inconsequential economy it is somewhat useful. I happen to prefer the word "karma."