Do you have proof for you claims? I am under the impression that 500 rep essentially maxes out your standard privileges and that no reputation based weighting is applied to votes.
If your fear is that there are voting rings (which apparently the system tries to detect) then resetting the rep will give them more relative power not less.
Personally I dont pay any attention to the rep of a user when evaluating how I should or should not engage with them. I think things are working just fine at the moment.
If you are frustrated by repetitive homepage content, I recommend you switch to the "new" view as there is lots of diversity there.
Again, if you have any proof that a cadre of nefarious high profile users are somehow abusing the system I would love to see it.
So then no proof whatsoever? So for fun I looked at your user and color me shocked that you are complaining about the use of sock puppets while apparently using one yourself. Alternatively has 8 days allowed you to devine the inner workings of this site?
He gave no links nor did the original post. I did no flagging and did not vote on any item in this thread. Yet I see that four accounts with a combined age of 10 days wants to complain about sock puppets.
I agree with your observations, but my conclusion from it is therefore karma isn’t worth worrying about. Not uncommon for me to see heavily upvoted material I disagree with, or vice-versa, and am resigned to the fact that bot traffic will be a significant factor on both counts. I still get to view both. Unlike reddit, it seems unpopular opinions still have a home at HN. Karma is mostly for the bots, not me.
Unfortunately there's not much you can do here and it is not going to happen despite HN being in fact far worse today than it was a decade ago.
The site is unfortunately filled with rampant upvote rings, AI agents / bots commenting, users that have certain privileges who can rapidly comment and reply without getting throttled and now we have slop filled posts in Show HN and some instances of crypto memecoin scams.
Things would have to get significantly far worse (spam, AI agents, constant rule breaking) for a reset with new rules. It may happen, but we are not there yet.
> The site is unfortunately filled with rampant upvote rings, AI agents / bots commenting, users that have certain privileges who can rapidly comment and reply without getting throttled
Do you have proof for you claims? I am under the impression that 500 rep essentially maxes out your standard privileges and that no reputation based weighting is applied to votes.
If your fear is that there are voting rings (which apparently the system tries to detect) then resetting the rep will give them more relative power not less.
Personally I dont pay any attention to the rep of a user when evaluating how I should or should not engage with them. I think things are working just fine at the moment.
If you are frustrated by repetitive homepage content, I recommend you switch to the "new" view as there is lots of diversity there.
Again, if you have any proof that a cadre of nefarious high profile users are somehow abusing the system I would love to see it.
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So then no proof whatsoever? So for fun I looked at your user and color me shocked that you are complaining about the use of sock puppets while apparently using one yourself. Alternatively has 8 days allowed you to devine the inner workings of this site?
He gave no links nor did the original post. I did no flagging and did not vote on any item in this thread. Yet I see that four accounts with a combined age of 10 days wants to complain about sock puppets.
Why would anyone else care? It was you
Edited to add them in the original even though it should be common knowledge that obviously high karma posting is treated differently than low
Neither link you posted showed anything to me other than you need a negligible of karma to unlock comment downvoting.
Do you want to quote the sections you feel detail how "high karma posting" is treated?
Anyone can log into a decent rep acct to see the dead comment lol
It’s proof already the site is broken.
You said provide proof for your claims, he links official HN links and it is auto dead (or you did it).
That is a broken site right there
He gave you 2 links and you flagged it, proving his point even more.
Google it bro, links right to a post where it is confirmed that it does and even mentions “contrary to popular belief”
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I agree with your observations, but my conclusion from it is therefore karma isn’t worth worrying about. Not uncommon for me to see heavily upvoted material I disagree with, or vice-versa, and am resigned to the fact that bot traffic will be a significant factor on both counts. I still get to view both. Unlike reddit, it seems unpopular opinions still have a home at HN. Karma is mostly for the bots, not me.
Unfortunately there's not much you can do here and it is not going to happen despite HN being in fact far worse today than it was a decade ago.
The site is unfortunately filled with rampant upvote rings, AI agents / bots commenting, users that have certain privileges who can rapidly comment and reply without getting throttled and now we have slop filled posts in Show HN and some instances of crypto memecoin scams.
Things would have to get significantly far worse (spam, AI agents, constant rule breaking) for a reset with new rules. It may happen, but we are not there yet.
> The site is unfortunately filled with rampant upvote rings, AI agents / bots commenting, users that have certain privileges who can rapidly comment and reply without getting throttled
Can you tell us about how do you know this