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Re:New Comment Features by Xichekolas on Thursday February 05, 2009 @08:46AM (#467762)
Give people a status symbol and they invariably try to attain it.
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Re:New Comment Features by DanielBMarkham on Thursday February 05, 2009 @08:52AM (#467776)
I'm amazed that you would have a karma system, special colored status indicators, and yet people would still claim that it doesn't affect user behavior.

That's the point, guys. If the karma/colored system didn't affect user behavior, it wouldn't be there

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