Re:Snobbism-less way to save hacker-news from becoming anoth...
by bootload on Monday March 24, 2008 @06:57PM
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"... The site has been diluted a bit. The TechCrunch post increased our traffic by 20% ... I don't think getting rid of karma would solve the problem, though. The problem is voting, not submission. ..."
Take a look at http://www.perlmonks.org You can vote but are limited by a daily ration proportional to hierarchy. But permonks has a different DNA compared to HN, less hierarchy more structured anarchy. So maybe that's not an ideal solution.
"... Long-time users: please vote more ..."
Willco, but I don't scale well. Of course there must be plenty of better ways to manage voting. Sounds like a new problem to solve.
Take a look at http://www.perlmonks.org You can vote but are limited by a daily ration proportional to hierarchy. But permonks has a different DNA compared to HN, less hierarchy more structured anarchy. So maybe that's not an ideal solution.
"... Long-time users: please vote more ..."
Willco, but I don't scale well. Of course there must be plenty of better ways to manage voting. Sounds like a new problem to solve.