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Are we talking "karma for a single comment/post" or "karma for a user"? The reason I ask is that I've been using HN since close to the beginning and never once
by ScottWhigham 17y ago
Are we talking "karma for a single comment/post" or "karma for a user"? The reason I ask is that I've been using HN since close to the beginning and never once have I looked at a user's karma score. User karma has no meaning to me, good or bad. Post/comment karma matters in the sorting and what appears on the front page so, to me, it's the only thing that I care about.
So is your discussion more about user or post/comment karma? I suspect the latter.
- johnnybgoode 17y agoI guess I had both in mind. The post/comment karma for the reasons you mentioned, but also user karma - not just because people look at a user's karma score, but because it's used to determine other things. If it's used for even more purposes in the future (vote weighting, for example) its importance will only increase.