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Re:I lost all my points (karma). by pg on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @12:11PM (#38394)
You're right. Someone went on a downmodding spree.

I restored your karma. Now I'm going to have to write some software to prevent this kind of abuse. Great. As if I didn't have enough to do...

Re:I lost all my points (karma). by mattjaynes on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @12:32PM (#38399)
~Flashback to 2002~

"Hey Paul, I keep getting all these junk email messages and they're filling up my inbox!"

"You're right. Someone went on an emailing spree. Now I'm going to have to write some software to prevent this kind of abuse. Great. As if I didn't have enough to do..."

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

Re:I lost all my points (karma). by palish on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @12:41PM (#38402)
~Flashback to 1995~

"Hey Paul, my programs keep crashing and never get updated!"

"You're right. Someone went on a desktop software spree. Now I'm going to have to write some software to prevent this kind of abuse. Great. As if I didn't have enough to do..."

http://www.paulgraham.com/first.html

Re:I lost all my points (karma). by dfranke on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @01:30PM (#38414)
~Flashback to 1993~

"Hey Paul, this C++ code takes ten thousand lines to get anything done and keeps doing a fandango on core!"

"You're right. Someone went on a blub spree. Now I'm going to have to show people how to avoid subjecting themselves to this kind of abuse. Great. As if I didn't have enough to do..."

http://paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

Re:I lost all my points (karma). by pg on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @01:53PM (#38422)
It won't be anywhere near as complicated. All I have to do is not display down arrows on comments over a day old.
Re:I lost all my points (karma). by palish on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @03:54PM (#38458)
A week might be more fair.
Re:I lost all my points (karma). by byrneseyeview on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @06:44PM (#38513)
What about for articles off the front page?
Re:I lost all my points (karma). by eposts on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @01:53PM (#38421)
>Crystal ball into future<

"Hey Paul, I am getting all these requests from YC clones to apply to their program."

"You're right. Someone went on a cloning spree. Now I am going to have to do something to prevent this kind of kind of abuse. Great. As if I didn't have enough to do..."

http://y2combinator.com/

Re:I lost all my points (karma). by brlewis on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @01:55PM (#38423)
I actually have a little free time now while I let a professional designer loose on some of my pages. Just post the source to news.yc and I'll send you a patch.
Re:I lost all my points (karma). by staunch on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @08:39PM (#38550)
Maybe limit the number of "voting points" you get per day based on your karma? Works great at Perlmonks. Whoever it was went through my posts as well. I just figured I had pissed someone off with my Disqus post :-)
Re:I lost all my points (karma). by pg on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @11:42PM (#38585)
Sure enough. It was the same guy. I'm not going to out him, because he has contributed significantly to the site, and I think this was just a lapse of judgement but please do not do this anymore.