Ask YC: Do you care about Karma?

Re:Ask YC: Do you care about Karma? by apgwoz on Monday April 21, 2008 @12:05PM (#169494)

I'd love if social news were more like an RPG where you could "level up" to get more features, customizations and other things I can't think of. Last I knew, users with 250 karma were allowed to change the color of the nav bar at the top.

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Re:Ask YC: Do you care about Karma? by kashif on Monday April 21, 2008 @12:31PM (#169544)

I would personally play an RPG instead - if I was looking for such excitement. From nYC I want the best submissions. :)

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Re:Ask YC: Do you care about Karma? by apgwoz on Monday April 21, 2008 @01:16PM (#169608)

But, the best submissions would still exist. People would still vote for the best things. There would just be more rewards for those who submitted them.

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Re:Ask YC: Do you care about Karma? by kashif on Monday April 21, 2008 @01:24PM (#169616)

Yes, that is indeed the current hypothesis. I am suggesting an alternate one might improve the quality of the submissions even more. And, to test this new hypothesis we must necessarily discard individual karma.

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Re:Ask YC: Do you care about Karma? by xenoterracide on Monday April 21, 2008 @01:32PM (#169627)

then we could have karma farming bots :P

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Re:Ask YC: Do you care about Karma? by kashif on Monday April 21, 2008 @01:46PM (#169651)

And a possibility of acquisitions by gaming companies...

Interesting.

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