I'd love if social news were more like an RPG where you could
"level up" to get more features, customizations and other things I can't think of. Last I knew, users with 250 karma were allowed to change the color of the nav bar at the top.
But, the best submissions would still exist. People would still vote for the best things. There would just be more rewards for those who submitted them.
Yes, that is indeed the current hypothesis. I am suggesting an alternate one might improve the quality of the submissions even more. And, to test this new hypothesis we must necessarily discard individual karma.
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I'd love if social news were more like an RPG where you could "level up" to get more features, customizations and other things I can't think of. Last I knew, users with 250 karma were allowed to change the color of the nav bar at the top.
I would personally play an RPG instead - if I was looking for such excitement. From nYC I want the best submissions. :)
But, the best submissions would still exist. People would still vote for the best things. There would just be more rewards for those who submitted them.
Yes, that is indeed the current hypothesis. I am suggesting an alternate one might improve the quality of the submissions even more. And, to test this new hypothesis we must necessarily discard individual karma.
then we could have karma farming bots :P
And a possibility of acquisitions by gaming companies...
Interesting.