Bots, so many bots

Re:Bots, so many bots by hashmap on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @11:35AM (#41709786)

Karma is a number that can go up. Numbers going up is a supernormal stimulus for humans.

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Re:Bots, so many bots by criddell on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @11:39AM (#41709838)

They should get rid of the number and change it to be only "low" or "high".

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Re:Bots, so many bots by diggan on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @12:03PM (#41710205)

Get rid of karma + get rid of ranking comments at all. Just render them in a tree-format with oldest/newest first, everyone has equal footing :)

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Re:Bots, so many bots by vunderba on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @06:29PM (#41714962)

True but at least for Hacker News you have to at least click through to the member profile to see how many banana stickers and external validation they've accrued.

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