Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by bd on Thursday January 08, 2009 @10:53PM (#426143)

Email prioritizing based on karma?

High karma could move your mail towards top of the pile for people that don't know you (VIP).

Or posts/mails could be filtered based on karma thresholds.

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by rms on Friday January 09, 2009 @12:31AM (#426256)

That's a perfectly good application of a reputational economy. There's pretty much infinite possibility. I'm not sure if it has been explored in fiction better than Doctorow's Down and Out Magic Kingdom, about a post-scarcity, post-singularity society with a reputational economy. http://craphound.com/down/ Available free online under a CC license.

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by signa11 on Friday January 09, 2009 @01:10AM (#426294)

gnus email/news-reader already provides, such a fature via scoring. You can score somebody up/down. At a configured threshold, you dont get to see the posts/articles from such folks anymore. love to have something like this in gmail.

[edit]: the same can be done for articles/persons etc etc. for more info http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual//html_node/gnus/Sum....

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by joshwa on Friday January 09, 2009 @09:56PM (#427520)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=144580

http://www.seriosity.com/attent.html

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by tptacek on Thursday January 08, 2009 @11:06PM (#426160)

How many Reddit points will a Hacker News point be worth?

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by gills on Thursday January 08, 2009 @11:19PM (#426183)

I guess someone will have to build the karma derivatives trading platform...

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by rms on Friday January 09, 2009 @12:32AM (#426259)

Oh man... with 30:1 leverage I could make a killing.

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by tptacek on Thursday January 08, 2009 @11:18PM (#426180)

Wait, I'm an idiot; of course you run a market to solve this.

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by pudo on Friday January 09, 2009 @03:12AM (#426378)

This is smart but I'm not sure what the fundamental transaction on such a market is. Keep in mind that there is no rivalry for karma (in an economic sense) and that people always keep their karma after giving to others (or possibly even increase it).

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by tptacek on Friday January 09, 2009 @01:31PM (#426925)

Not sure I agree; I think people are already using ad hoc methods to "price" karma; for instance, I have used such methods to "price" a Hacker News karma point as 1,000,000 reddit points.

The side effect of the market would be to rank discussion systems by credibility, or signal/noise, in real time.

It's also geeky enough that I think you could keep liquidity, even though there's no dollar value to karma.

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by jbert on Friday January 09, 2009 @10:42AM (#426677)

Allow people on your aggregator site to manage the karma of the reputation sources. Open to gaming, but all karma is to some extent.

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by run4yourlives on Friday January 09, 2009 @01:36PM (#426939)

Four billion and 1.

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by mattdennewitz on Thursday January 08, 2009 @10:28PM (#426124)

what about acting as gatekeeper for invite-only or beta sites, prioritizing invite distribution by a global karma factor?

or is that too eugenic?

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by rms on Thursday January 08, 2009 @10:31PM (#426128)

That's fine, but I think invite distribution is too unimportant.

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by mattdennewitz on Friday January 09, 2009 @12:01PM (#426783)

i guess, as w/ most things in life, it just depends on the context.

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