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Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

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600 points codetrotter | 3 comments | 05 Apr 23 21:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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]▶
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]▶
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]▶
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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eru ◴[06 Apr 23 02:47 UTC] No.35463490[source]▶
> Your top karma people abuse their authority and you don't even notice.

What authority do 'top karma people' have?

I have 25,772 karma, for what it's worth, and you have 2. I don't think there's anything I can do here on HN that you can't do?

(Hah, and I just noticed that my account is two days older than dang's!)

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pests ◴[06 Apr 23 05:12 UTC] No.35464397[source]▶
You can downvote and flag, they can’t.
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1. eru ◴[06 Apr 23 05:16 UTC] No.35464415[source]▶
Well, the limits for that are 500 and 30 karma. But you technically have a point as 2718i314 (the user I replied to) doesn't have enough karma to reach those thresholds.
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2. 2718i314 ◴[06 Apr 23 05:28 UTC] No.35464498[source]▶
That is snide of you. Does that deserve a downvote?
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3. eru ◴[06 Apr 23 06:54 UTC] No.35465072[source]▶
If you don't like the community here, why do you stick around?