Re:Ask HN: How valuable is karma?
by krapp on Monday June 05, 2017 @09:23PM
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It's worthless.
It doesn't even really serve its intended purpose - encouraging civil behavior through reinforcement, or acting as a weight to sort by quality. And the fact that there are no guidelines for voting means that it carries very little context as well, besides being a general indicator of account age.
It doesn't even really serve its intended purpose - encouraging civil behavior through reinforcement, or acting as a weight to sort by quality. And the fact that there are no guidelines for voting means that it carries very little context as well, besides being a general indicator of account age.