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Re:Announcing Y Combinator Startup News (2007) by chaostheory on Sunday August 28, 2016 @02:27AM (#12375537)
Re:Announcing Y Combinator Startup News (2007) by kasbah on Sunday August 28, 2016 @09:43AM (#12376462)
> Each user's voting power will then be scaled based on whether they vote for good stories or bad ones.

I guess they gave up on that? Would be interesting to hear how it panned out.

Re:Announcing Y Combinator Startup News (2007) by ramblenode on Sunday August 28, 2016 @01:47AM (#12375455)
> You can tell a lot about the users of a site like this from the the links they post and their comments in discussions. There are a number of Reddit users that I know only by their usernames, but I know must be smart from the things they've written. We're counting on the same phenomenon to help us decide who to fund.

It sounds like "karma" may have a deeper meaning than on Reddit. Do good things--they may literally pay off one day.

Re:Announcing Y Combinator Startup News (2007) by elmigranto on Sunday August 28, 2016 @02:19AM (#12375519)
> Do good things

I think popular ones would be more accurate.

Re:Announcing Y Combinator Startup News (2007) by legulere on Sunday August 28, 2016 @02:29AM (#12375543)
It will show them, that you spend way too much time on hacker news reading and commenting stuff.
Re:Announcing Y Combinator Startup News (2007) by pori on Sunday August 28, 2016 @04:38AM (#12375813)
The community sure has come along way. I appreciate that the design is still pretty much the same. Even still running on Arc lang!