Re:Little Known Hacker News (2008)
by davidhollander on Saturday January 29, 2011 @08:21PM
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You're definitely right, solipsist has submitted 26 articles so far today!
The obvious solution is to limit the number of articles you can submit a day to, say, 1. Increase the scarcity of the resource to increase value of what it's used for and limit the power of karma farmers and spammers.
Another option is to have story submissions not count towards karma. Presumably one should submit a story because they think the community will benefit and they want to share it. If you give people cookies every time they submit something, you'll end up with people who only want the cookies.
See this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2066572
Re:Little Known Hacker News (2008)
by VomisaCaasi on Sunday January 30, 2011 @05:27AM
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Seems as if it isn't that hard to bypass the "trial" period of HN. In addition to minimum karma requirement, applying 3 months of newbie time would probably be somewhat helpful as well. If the user has earned his badge of negative voting after the end of the rookie period, his understanding on the site has matured to point where he knows where the site is at, and he would be more than willing to keep it that way.
I agree that the downvote karma threshold has been instrumental in maintaining the quality of discussion here on HN, but it seems like it's too easy to get around by submitting lots of stories. And that drastically reduces the socialization period.