Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

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600 points codetrotter | 2 comments | 05 Apr 23 21:38 UTC | HN request time: 1.552s | source

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subsubzero ◴[05 Apr 23 23:32 UTC] No.35461974[source]▶

Congrats Dang, you have done a wonderful job so far and moderate one of the most fantastic online communities out there. I am sure most of the job feels somewhat thankless but I want to let you know I(and many many other users on this site) appreciate your hard work and dedication.

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codeddesign ◴[06 Apr 23 01:08 UTC] No.35462773[source]▶

>>35461974 #

If by “finest” you mean a Reddit mob mentality for tech, then yes I completely agree with this statement.

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dang ◴[06 Apr 23 01:54 UTC] No.35463131[source]▶

>>35462773 #

What do you think we could do differently? Serious question.

I don't like the mob thing either but it's how large group dynamics on the internet work (by default). We try to mitigate it where we can but there's not a lot of knowledge about how to do that.

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2718i314 ◴[06 Apr 23 02:26 UTC] No.35463371[source]▶

>>35463131 #

Reset karma for everyone. Your top karma people abuse their authority and you don't even notice. If a post is flagged, show who flagged it and for how long.

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1. onion2k ◴[06 Apr 23 03:51 UTC] No.35463911[source]▶

>>35463371 #

FWIW I'm pretty sure I've flagged fewer than 100 comments in my decade or so on HN. I strongly suspect people with a lot of karma are much more likely to post a comment in response or maybe downvote something than flagging it.

Also, a lot of the high karma accounts got there by posting links, or just by grinding their way up by posting a lot of comments, or because they're 'famous' for something. Karma doesn't represent any sort of unusual power or authority. If you think it does you're reading too much into it.