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Re:Tell Hacker News: Throwaway accounts by biohacker42 on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @09:56AM (#360544)
I can assure you he went on a trolling rampage because arguing and karma is a game. And us geeks love to argue and play games.

I am certain there are more like him and there will be a lot more in the future.

The interesting question is can something like a Bayesian spam filter be applied to trolling?

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Re:Tell Hacker News: Throwaway accounts by mariorz on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @01:15PM (#360737)
Having an absolute karma score and leaderboard no doubt encourage the game aspect of the thing.
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Re:Tell Hacker News: Throwaway accounts by unalone on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @01:59PM (#360806)
Yes, absolutely.

I feel a bit guilty, though, since my posting this seems to have put me on the leaderboard for the first time. Talk about karma. :-/

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