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Thank goodness HN gold doesn't exist. The last thing HN needs is a divided community.
by sillysaurus3 13y ago
Thank goodness HN gold doesn't exist. The last thing HN needs is a divided community.
- DanBC 13y agoHow would HN Gold divide the community? It would just be a Super-Upvote for the comments that you wish you could upvote more than once. HN Gold could be nothing more than some text - "you recieved HN Gold for this post" - and a tally of how many posts you've had gilded; with a leader board of people who have received HN Gold. It would provide small income to the website and hopefully encourage better posts. People might take the extra time to find a good URL to support their post or to give extra information.
- sillysaurus3 13y agoUnless you remember how the "highlight members with high average comment karma" experiment divided the community, it may seem confusing how HN gold could possibly divide the community. Such features are inherently divisive (in this case "those who have gold vs those who don't.") Leaderboards are generally divisive; that's why they're marginalized and hidden behind the "lists" link at the bottom of the site. Etc. We don't need to promote elitism to encourage better comments. We just need to encourage better comments. Also, as a small critique specific to HN Gold itself: there's no way to prevent someone from gilding their own comments. (They can just use an alt account and a different credit card to get around any account-specific self-gilding restriction, for example.) Suffice to say, self-gilding would be detrimental to the commenting ecosystem here on HN.
- ansible 13y agoI don't think we'd need leaderboards or any thing like that. Maybe HN gold just gives access to the 'gold lounge' and that's about it. I just wanted some way to say 'awesome job' for a good comment and help support the site. If someone's got a better idea, I'd be open to that.