I wonder why Paul cares so much about people being collectively downmodded under the ground. Some of the stuff I said here scored way below -10 mark and I didn't care, why would PG?
This is just a little game we're all playing: popularity in high school, karma points on some Internet board, who knows, maybe someone is selling fake Facebook friends... Paul, you're taking this too seriously! :-)
Why create a little democracy only to manipulate it slightly to his understanding of "the right thing to do"? Although I'd love the idea of printing McCain name nearly invisible on the ballot. That would do the trick.
News.YC was "manipulated" from the beginning. There have always been customs about how to behave, and software for enforcing some of them. For example, there has always been protection against spam and sockpuppets.
The most important thing to me about this site is the community. In any community you seem to have to have rules to prevent abuses.
It's a pretty cool game. My karma has been growing since i started playing here. I upvoted a lot of comments i agree with and down voted some i disagree with. I even did some cool stuff like upvote -5 or lower comments just for fun. I even posted a dumb comment once to see how my karma would change(i deleted it after i saw the result, im not 15 any more and spamming isn't as interesting) It is a game, and i don't take it verry seriously. But i do reread and reedit my comments before posting, but i mainly do ti because of my bad English, i've been learning it for 12 years now and my spelling is still horrible.
This is just a little game we're all playing: popularity in high school...
I used to tell myself that high school popularity was just a silly game. Then I grew older, the web was invented, and I got to read the stories of geeks whose unpopularity in school led to them being beaten with bicycle chains in the parking lot.
Never underestimate the power of social dynamics. When humans play a "little game", that game can become real.
This is just a little game we're all playing: popularity in high school, karma points on some Internet board, who knows, maybe someone is selling fake Facebook friends... Paul, you're taking this too seriously! :-)
Why create a little democracy only to manipulate it slightly to his understanding of "the right thing to do"? Although I'd love the idea of printing McCain name nearly invisible on the ballot. That would do the trick.