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-People notice that downtime posts end up on the front page. -Those who care about fake internet points see downtime messages as "easy karma." No thought requi
by ignostic 13y ago
-People notice that downtime posts end up on the front page.
-Those who care about fake internet points see downtime messages as "easy karma." No thought required.
-The mad rush to submit the "news" for easy karma results in votes for the first submission.
-The cycle repeats.
Downtime messages aren't the only thing. Sometimes things make it to the front page based on their perceived likelihood to make it to the front page.
- locofacetwice 13y agoThan why don't you just start downvoting those threads?
- presty 13y agoaka karma whoring. It has become quite (unsuprisingly) prevalent on HN. Wonder if pg has any plans on fighting this and if the high-karma enabled functionalities take into account karma whoring in their formula. You can easily spot the trend if you read HN through RSS. And it sucks :\
- olalonde 13y ago> You can easily spot the trend if you read HN through RSS. Why is it more easy to spot through RSS? (genuine question)
- ville 13y agoI would guess it's easier to spot the amount of noise when you skim through all the submissions as opposed to peeking at the highest voted stories on the front page every once in a while. The the posts that end up in the front page have been filtered, an unfiltered RSS feed has even the failed attempts to get easy points.
- rhizome 13y agoIt appears to be easier to get into the RSS feed than the front page, so if you follow RSS you see many truly terrible submissions.
- steveklabnik 13y agoYes, I too hope pg decides to fight the good fight against others gaining precious Internet Points via methods I find unsavory, even if their accumulation doesn't affect me in the least.
- eksith 13y agoSock puppets = Proliferation of guns. With karma = Availability of bullets. What doesn't affect you individually, affects all of us collectively. I.E. It diminishes the legitimacy of this forum as a whole when those very same mechanisms that are meant to cultivate genuine discussion are abused for petty reasons easily.
- dreen 13y agoHeres an idea: remove karma total - its just an epenis and nothing else. Keep points for posts so you can see if your post was good and for burying trolls but dont show the total in profile or news page. Done.