HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (2009)

Re:HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (2... by OJFord on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:51AM (#26466082)

Filtering the comments tab on karma would be good.

Roughly the same as your suggestion of course, since if an early user is still commenting, they almost certainly have accrued a lot over the years, but it would also allow newer entrants that have had well enough received (or enough well received) comments to qualify.

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Re:HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (2... by woofie11 on Monday March 15, 2021 @05:45PM (#26469570)

Karma doesn't work the same way.

Karma tends to:

- Promote extremism and groupthink. Try posting any comment which isn't far-left on reddit (outside of the far-right forums, which will be the opposite). You'll be -50.

- Be gameable for SEO and spamming.

- Target the mean. Try posting anything particularly erudite on a reddit or a late slashdot.

I kinda like the crowd which set up HN. It's diverse enough, intelligent enough, and works for me.

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