Fix HN by tying karma to upvotes.

Re:Fix HN by tying karma to upvotes. by eof on Saturday April 14, 2012 @11:21PM (#3842628)

Something I have thought about is giving more weight to rare-voters.

My HN karma is easily 50x the number of votes I have ever given, up or down. But when I do vote, I really mean it.

This is somewhat a problem though if I never vote but happen to vote my buddies post because he is my friend; so maybe it wouldn't work.

To your idea; instead of giving a 4-1 ratio from high-to-low voters; I would propose something like like 0-10 with 10 points for those with the highest karma, and 0 for those with the lowest.

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Re:Fix HN by tying karma to upvotes. by samirahmed on Saturday April 14, 2012 @11:50PM (#3842683)

To implement such an approach HN users should not be made aware of the fact that more weighting is given to rare-voters.

Otherwise users will change the manner in which they vote, making frequent voters want to vote less and discouraging participation

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Re:Fix HN by tying karma to upvotes. by adrianwaj on Sunday April 15, 2012 @01:49AM (#3842928)

Could also weight submission upvotes where the story is clicked and factor rarity between subs, upvotes and downvotes.

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