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by hashmap 623 days ago
Karma is a number that can go up. Numbers going up is a supernormal stimulus for humans.
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criddell 623 days ago
They should get rid of the number and change it to be only "low" or "high".
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diggan 623 days ago
Get rid of karma + get rid of ranking comments at all. Just render them in a tree-format with oldest/newest first, everyone has equal footing :)
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vunderba 622 days ago
True but at least for Hacker News you have to at least click through to the member profile to see how many banana stickers and external validation they've accrued.
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