In being a participant in many of these online communities, these kind of things sometimes seem like a losing battle to me. There will always be a slice of the population that will try to game the 'karma' system on sites like HN. Slashdot went thru this years ago. Kuro5hin went thru it. Digg. Reddit.... All sorts of solutions are proposed, like hiding a user's 'karma' rating, having the user population meta moderate ratings on comments...
I do find it interesting that the comment score has been hidden. That's kind of novel, and it might be the kind of solution needed in this case.
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In being a participant in many of these online communities, these kind of things sometimes seem like a losing battle to me. There will always be a slice of the population that will try to game the 'karma' system on sites like HN. Slashdot went thru this years ago. Kuro5hin went thru it. Digg. Reddit.... All sorts of solutions are proposed, like hiding a user's 'karma' rating, having the user population meta moderate ratings on comments...
I do find it interesting that the comment score has been hidden. That's kind of novel, and it might be the kind of solution needed in this case.