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Perhaps the karma threshold for downvoting needs to be raised to balance the Redditization of HN.
Perhaps the karma threshold for downvoting needs to be raised to balance the Redditization of HN.
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
> Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit.
Unfortunately it would make the part about karma that's already slightly broken IMO into a major breakage: You have to write scores of reasonably popular comments to collect as much good karma as a single successful submission tends to give. That's on top of commenting tending to be more work than submitting. I've spent as much as half an hour of research on some comments, just to make sure I've got the details straight.
Lisp tables in flat files, actually.