Re:Propose HN: 'Countless' experiment – hiding all karmic in...
by dang on Sunday April 28, 2019 @09:26PM
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> HN already boosts comments from high-karma users
That's not true. That is, if you're talking about the HN software, it does nothing like that. Ranking algorithms don't look at karma. Karma is used for things like spam filter exemptions and turning on flagging (at > 30) and downvoting (at > 500).
That's not true. That is, if you're talking about the HN software, it does nothing like that. Ranking algorithms don't look at karma. Karma is used for things like spam filter exemptions and turning on flagging (at > 30) and downvoting (at > 500).