A Hacker News Upvote Is Apparently Worth £3.80(upwork.com)

6 pointsby nimbleal3 tahun yang lalu6 comments

A Hacker News Upvote Is Apparently Worth £3.80

https://www.upwork.com/en-gb/jobs/Upvote-post-hackernews_~010433f5138b73d322/

6 comments

RetroTechie3 tahun yang lalu

Wondering how karma / 'popularity contests' on sites like hn will play out in AI infused web.

Armies of bots pushing particular stories on a set of news outlets? AI controlled accounts with sole purpose to downvote (make 'disappear') particular stories? On many sites, AI controlled accounts vastly outnumbering human controlled ones? (turning humans into powerless minority). Websites using methods to verify that users are actually human? (like, send copy of ID or similar). Webs of trust, of people 'vetted' by each other to be real people? AI pushing content so fanatically & everywhere that most of the web turns into garbage blurb? (well.. even more than today ;-)

Interesting times...

8chanAnon3 tahun yang lalu

I have no idea what karma is used for. Does it affect one's posting ability (I posted with 1 karma and the post was immediately flagged as dead)? I created my account over a month ago, managed to get 6 karma and then ended up with 1 karma. I took time away and came back yesterday and started commenting (not posting). Now over 100 karma but I have no idea how or why or what it means.

jdjdjdhhd3 tahun yang lalu

Downvotes must be worth even more

pestatije3 tahun yang lalu

hn karma is so childish, can we have opt-out option please?

especially to those downvoters-without-comment out there, fuck you all

fsflover3 tahun yang lalu

What do you mean by "opt-out option"? You already can simply ignore your karma.

beardyw3 tahun yang lalu

I think the intention here is to give a story prominence. Often the submitter is a throwaway.

In that case karma is useful to spot a story and several comments all of whom have single digit karma.