It has become quite (unsuprisingly) prevalent on HN. Wonder if pg has any plans on fighting this and if the high-karma enabled functionalities take into account karma whoring in their formula.
You can easily spot the trend if you read HN through RSS. And it sucks :\
I would guess it's easier to spot the amount of noise when you skim through all the submissions as opposed to peeking at the highest voted stories on the front page every once in a while.
The the posts that end up in the front page have been filtered, an unfiltered RSS feed has even the failed attempts to get easy points.
Yes, I too hope pg decides to fight the good fight against others gaining precious Internet Points via methods I find unsavory, even if their accumulation doesn't affect me in the least.
Sock puppets = Proliferation of guns.
With karma = Availability of bullets.
What doesn't affect you individually, affects all of us collectively. I.E. It diminishes the legitimacy of this forum as a whole when those very same mechanisms that are meant to cultivate genuine discussion are abused for petty reasons easily.
Heres an idea: remove karma total - its just an epenis and nothing else. Keep points for posts so you can see if your post was good and for burying trolls but dont show the total in profile or news page. Done.
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aka karma whoring.
It has become quite (unsuprisingly) prevalent on HN. Wonder if pg has any plans on fighting this and if the high-karma enabled functionalities take into account karma whoring in their formula.
You can easily spot the trend if you read HN through RSS. And it sucks :\
Why is it more easy to spot through RSS? (genuine question)
I would guess it's easier to spot the amount of noise when you skim through all the submissions as opposed to peeking at the highest voted stories on the front page every once in a while.
The the posts that end up in the front page have been filtered, an unfiltered RSS feed has even the failed attempts to get easy points.
It appears to be easier to get into the RSS feed than the front page, so if you follow RSS you see many truly terrible submissions.
Yes, I too hope pg decides to fight the good fight against others gaining precious Internet Points via methods I find unsavory, even if their accumulation doesn't affect me in the least.
Sock puppets = Proliferation of guns. With karma = Availability of bullets.
What doesn't affect you individually, affects all of us collectively. I.E. It diminishes the legitimacy of this forum as a whole when those very same mechanisms that are meant to cultivate genuine discussion are abused for petty reasons easily.
Heres an idea: remove karma total - its just an epenis and nothing else. Keep points for posts so you can see if your post was good and for burying trolls but dont show the total in profile or news page. Done.