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[Hacker News] Hacker News | Ask YC: Do you care about Karma?: Slashdot had the right idea when you were limited to one post a day (or whatever) when your karma got to -10. If you can't write content that other people enjoy, you need to leave or adjust your attitude.

[Blog - Stack Overflow] The Value of Downvoting, or, How Hacker News Gets It Wrong - Blog ...: Given that there have been 122,141 downvotes (and counting), and that Rich B has made 1226 of them on his own, that means that Rich B accounts for over 1% of the downvotes on this site. Which just goes to show that he’s a pivotal part of the “critical community feedback loop from the system”.

[kuro5hin.org] Attacked from Within || kuro5hin.org: Moderators won't be wholly responsible for killing fluff links, as they are on Hacker News, but for the more scalable task of fixing miscategorized submissions. Passive moderation may even be employable in flagging potential miscategorizations by analyzing submissions according to overall length and to ratio of links to text.

[Hacker News] Hacker News | Ask HN: What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit ...: Imagine writing a spam filter when you're being paid by beancounters whose bottom line is maximizing the number of messages. Even, sometimes, beancounters who face strong temptation to maximize the number of bytes of email this quarter and worry about the longer-than-a-month-term consequences later.

[Steve's Blog] Create a more compelling experience for your users through game ...: Ten comments lets you post stories. (Hacker News sort of does this already, with a minimum karma before downvoting is enabled.

[Hacker News] Hacker News | HN: New flag feature: The purpose is to let users over a certain karma threshold flag spam and troll submissions. It should only be used for spams and really egregious trolling, not for stuff that's merely vapid or mistaken or off-topic. Please don't click on it just to try it .... I've seen the voting=bookmarking discussion on reddit too. If it's such a big deal, why does neither site offer a bookmarking link? Any other reason except feature trimming? Looks like a sound idea to me... ----- ...

[Gabriel Weinberg's Blog] Patrick McKenzie on SEO & AdWords for Bingo Card Creator - Gabriel ...: For example, if you have a widget for some game which allows someone to embed their avatar on their site, that fulfills psychological needs for the person doing the embedding.  It lets them show off "I have this character that I spent all this time building" and lets them brag to their friends "My Sword of Magic Destruction +10 is better than your Sword of Magic Destruction +8.

[Search Engine War] Search Engine War: Web 2.0 Summit - Day 1: Steve Huffman - Reddit - Karma, people get obessed with getting numbers, "video game mentality", getting more karma on Reddit incentivises people to submit links. - It's usually possible to spot spam using common heuristics.

[Hacker News] Hacker News Guidelines: (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

[Hacker News] Hacker News | Has Hackers News Become Less About Hacking?: More news leads to more comments and more comments creates more fuss(noise) Quality of a discussion greatly reduce as more participants, lengthy comments(self reference here) and deep reply branches.Like your favorite TV discussion program where after couple of hours everyone has a word and shouting each.The quality of comments may be,may be, increase if (high karma)&(register date) take precedence. Think about the anchorman of your favorite tv discussion program: does he start with people in the backseats or starts with some wise figure?

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