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Flags also require a minimum karma, and members with yet higher karma can also undead posts, if needed. HN is actually surprisingly good about this, so I disag
by borski 3mo ago
Flags also require a minimum karma, and members with yet higher karma can also undead posts, if needed.
HN is actually surprisingly good about this, so I disagree with your assertion.
- dymk 3mo agoWhat does “high karma” have to do with less emotionally driven voting behavior?
- borski 3mo agoYou acquire karma through posting things that are interesting or curious enough that others upvote them. Thus, you build reputation by acquiring karma. It isn’t perfect, but the fact that folks with higher karma can “fix” the emotional flags of folks with lower karma, it helps. Also, I’d recommend re-reading the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dymk 3mo agoYou just explained the mechanism by which the karma number goes up, not explained your theory why you think higher number means less emotional voting.
- j_maffe 3mo agoAlmost all of my karma is from a single post link that blew up randomly. I think this is the case for most users' karma here.
- Gigachad 3mo agoAll that does is reinforce the existing biases. If you post a lot of things other HN users agree with, you get the ability to silence things HN users don't like.