deepster on Ask HN: What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot?

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As long as the desire for excellent content outweighs the desire for growth and the users vote down irrelevant stories, then we are good to go.

Hexstream 18y

We can't downvote stories here...

jmatt 18y

You can when you get a high enough karma.

PieSquared 18y

Really? What's the number?

jmatt 18y

I'm not sure. But I have enough karma at 85. I think the number has changed over time, but I'm not sure.

Maybe PG will share it with us or someone has recently hit the magic number?

Hexstream 18y

I have 867 karma and can't downvote stories. At some point there were talks of letting the top X downvote stories but I don't think it's been done.

jmatt 18y

Yeah it's calculated. I thought you were talking about comments. Or it was last time news.arc was released by PG

  (= gravity* 1.4 timebase* 120 front-threshold* 1)
 
  (def frontpage-rank (s (o gravity gravity*))
    (/ (- (realscore s) 1)
       (expt (/ (+ (item-age s) timebase*) 60) gravity)))

http://github.com/nex3/arc/tree/master/news.arc

rms 18y

You sure you don't mean comments?

jmatt 18y

Yeah my bad, I'm talking about comments.

iamelgringo 18y

My karma's 4700 and I can't downvote stories.

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