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Re:A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidd... by sillysaurusx on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:18PM (#22124233)
No chance. HN’s goal is to have every effective programmer in the world checking it at least once a week. Anything that gets in the way of that is de facto bad.

(I’d love to be surprised, though.)

You can get the same effect with a Tampermonkey script I wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456200

It even scrambles the karma count in your profile, so there’s no opportunity for karma to affect you.

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Re:A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidd... by bitexploder on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:08PM (#22124472)
Everything in moderation, right? Including games we play for imaginary Karma. I must say, though, I generally like the way HN does it. It isn't nearly as in your face and I don't find that motivates my behavior very much.
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Re:A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidd... by Consultant32452 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:14PM (#22124503)
If I get too many positive karma posts in a row I start worrying I'm censoring myself too much. Positive karma usually means I'm just saying the most mainstream thing and that's boring.
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Re:A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidd... by floatingatoll on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:54PM (#22124691)
The proposal is to see if site behavior changes as a whole when integers are removed. Individual opt-in doesn't permit such a test, nor does permitting opt-out.
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