Re:Ask HN: Should we eliminate downvoting on HN?
by underseacables on Thursday December 31, 2020 @03:37PM
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Show the votes. Why were they hidden in the first place? You can see someone’s karma, it seems strange to hide comment vote numbers.
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Re:Ask HN: Should we eliminate downvoting on HN?
by krapp on Thursday December 31, 2020 @03:42PM
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I think karma should be hidden too.
Once you give people a number, they'll start to game that number, leading to low quality karma-farming comments. When a measure (in the case of karma, of quality) becomes a target, it ceases to become a good measure.