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by wonginator1221
5040 days ago
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I think that there's also a chance that charging karma for a comment could also alter the quality of discussion here on HN. Although it may reduce comment "spam", commenters would have a stronger incentive to follow popular opinion to ensure that the cost of posting a comment is recouped. This could potentially reduce the number of dissenting (yet still intellectually provoking) comments. This hivemind mentality is a major problem in many online communities, but I do think that the hiding a karma on is definitely a step in the right direction. |
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If you do what they've done and personalise results then gaming the system becomes a lot harder; the only real way to win has to become producing quality content.
Metrics such as rank, average, sd, account age, up & downvotes could be combined by the reader in order to personalise story listing and comment rank/display on the story page.
That way if I want to reward a persons comments with a karma boost for average comment karma I can do so, but you could just do upvotes or just rank on inverse of downvotes or whatever.
This way the site users generate competing algorithms, algorithms will be adjusted and 'evolve' to generate the prefered ranking of comments. Those who dont want to write one can pick a recommended or default algo.
If user written algos are too expensive to use (though I'm thinking it would be client side in js) then a selection of algos could be offered by the site.