Ask HN: A first (or early) upvote bonus?

Posted by zaroth on Monday December 16, 2013 @02:57AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Should we encourage more people to watch and vote on /new? If so, do you think there should be a 'first upvote bonus'?

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Re:Ask HN: A first (or early) upvote bonus? by 27182818284 on Monday December 16, 2013 @10:58AM (#6915516)

No, it encourages to upvote things in new, but most things in new, shouldn't be upvoted by definition, right? It is supposed to funnel to the main page.

If you're curious, don't forget about other ways of ranking the homepage like https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

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Re:Ask HN: A first (or early) upvote bonus? by andrew_gardener on Monday December 16, 2013 @10:55AM (#6915484)

Wouldn't that just encourage vote spamming?

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Re:Ask HN: A first (or early) upvote bonus? by vjoel on Monday December 16, 2013 @03:31AM (#6913515)

What about a bonus for up-voting a story that eventually receives a high score? Or is that what you meant?

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Re:Ask HN: A first (or early) upvote bonus? by namenotrequired on Monday December 16, 2013 @08:00AM (#6914419)

This is how I interpreted it.

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Re:Ask HN: A first (or early) upvote bonus? by brudgers on Monday December 16, 2013 @08:37AM (#6914589)

No.

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