I care. Reddit was destroyed by trolls and joke accounts. They get downmodded quickly, but they keep coming back and spamming every article. Even though comments are the main point of Reddit, you get no credit for posting good ones and no penalty for posting spam.
Slashdot had the right idea when you were limited to one post a day (or whatever) when your karma got to -10. If you can't write content that other people enjoy, you need to leave or adjust your attitude. Karma is a way of making people feel bad enough to go away :)
The more people we can encourage to stay on /b/, the better... 'cause I really don't care to read that drivel, but I do care to read what people think about programming-related things.
I am sorry, I don't understand your point on how Karma relates to spammers going away and 'joke' accounts not being created, especially if they spammers kept coming back anyway.
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I care. Reddit was destroyed by trolls and joke accounts. They get downmodded quickly, but they keep coming back and spamming every article. Even though comments are the main point of Reddit, you get no credit for posting good ones and no penalty for posting spam.
Slashdot had the right idea when you were limited to one post a day (or whatever) when your karma got to -10. If you can't write content that other people enjoy, you need to leave or adjust your attitude. Karma is a way of making people feel bad enough to go away :)
The more people we can encourage to stay on /b/, the better... 'cause I really don't care to read that drivel, but I do care to read what people think about programming-related things.
I am sorry, I don't understand your point on how Karma relates to spammers going away and 'joke' accounts not being created, especially if they spammers kept coming back anyway.
My assumption is that reddit only really cares about keeping traffic up, while PG only cares about keeping quality up.
Having karma today allows PG to make changes tomorrow if he needed to take care of quality issues.
Okay, thanks. Much clearer :)
Did you just say /b/ instead of Hacker News? Those are like as extreme as you can get on the two ends of the spectrum.
I meant that we should convince the trolls that /b/ is where they should post, so they don't clog reddit and hacker news with their drivel.
yes but it's too easy to get bad karma on slashdot. I have bad karma on there (1-2 bad comments) and now none see my posts... it's too hard to redeem.
plus their karma system seems less easy to use.