← Back to context Comment by dymk 2 hours ago What does “high karma” have to do with less emotionally driven voting behavior? 4 comments dymk Reply borski 2 hours ago You acquire karma through posting things that are interesting or curious enough that others upvote them.Thus, you build reputation by acquiring karma.It isn’t perfect, but the fact that folks with higher karma can “fix” the emotional flags of folks with lower karma, it helps.Also, I’d recommend re-reading the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Gigachad 39 minutes ago All that does is reinforce the existing biases. If you post a lot of things other HN users agree with, you get the ability to silence things HN users don't like. j_maffe 43 minutes ago Almost all of my karma is from a single post link that blew up randomly. I think this is the case for most users' karma here. dymk 2 hours ago You just explained the mechanism by which the karma number goes up, not explained your theory why you think higher number means less emotional voting.
borski 2 hours ago You acquire karma through posting things that are interesting or curious enough that others upvote them.Thus, you build reputation by acquiring karma.It isn’t perfect, but the fact that folks with higher karma can “fix” the emotional flags of folks with lower karma, it helps.Also, I’d recommend re-reading the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Gigachad 39 minutes ago All that does is reinforce the existing biases. If you post a lot of things other HN users agree with, you get the ability to silence things HN users don't like. j_maffe 43 minutes ago Almost all of my karma is from a single post link that blew up randomly. I think this is the case for most users' karma here. dymk 2 hours ago You just explained the mechanism by which the karma number goes up, not explained your theory why you think higher number means less emotional voting.
Gigachad 39 minutes ago All that does is reinforce the existing biases. If you post a lot of things other HN users agree with, you get the ability to silence things HN users don't like.
j_maffe 43 minutes ago Almost all of my karma is from a single post link that blew up randomly. I think this is the case for most users' karma here.
dymk 2 hours ago You just explained the mechanism by which the karma number goes up, not explained your theory why you think higher number means less emotional voting.
You acquire karma through posting things that are interesting or curious enough that others upvote them.
Thus, you build reputation by acquiring karma.
It isn’t perfect, but the fact that folks with higher karma can “fix” the emotional flags of folks with lower karma, it helps.
Also, I’d recommend re-reading the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
All that does is reinforce the existing biases. If you post a lot of things other HN users agree with, you get the ability to silence things HN users don't like.
Almost all of my karma is from a single post link that blew up randomly. I think this is the case for most users' karma here.
You just explained the mechanism by which the karma number goes up, not explained your theory why you think higher number means less emotional voting.