xrayarx, I hope you don't mind! It's on my list to implement proper karma sharing for cases like this. In the meantime we sometimes resort to the crude manual approach.
The original timestamp is displayed on all other pages, so you can see e.g. from https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=samcurry.net that albinowax_ submitted the article first; and of course the item IDs are sequential so that's another way to compare the two.
> That's a pretty weird way for a site admin to handle karma
No, it's a very normal and fair thing for an admin to realize that two users submitted the same story within a few hours of each other, and the later one just happened to pick up votes, when it would have been reasonable for the first one to take off instead, and redirect the newer submission's comments to the older one.
> Why would you funnel karma and classify it as such?
What even is "funneling karma"? And regardless, I think you're confused, because the person who redirected the comments, as you pointed out, is an admin, so there's very little need for any malicious trickery, and he explicitly described what he was doing for transparency.
> Does that mean it's okay to farm karma here since it's basically Reddit karma?
Nobody suggested that except you. It looks like you're seeking an excuse to either unfairly accuse dang of something he didn't do, or to break the rules/do Reddit things on HN. Please don't.
Entirely correct. Karma was already visible on a user's profile, and therefore worth something for that reason alone. Nothing has changed, and your fallacious attempts to argue otherwise are irrelevant.
> just got green flagged here right now as an acceptable seeking
Categorically incorrect. Dang is the HN mod. Him doing a thing obviously does not imply that it's ok for a normal user to do it too.
> I'm not quite sure why you wrote so many sentences as a response
Because I strive to use logic, as a contrast to comments like yours, which use emotional manipulation ("pretty weird way", "I'm not quite so sure", "it sounds like") to try to manipulate readers into a feeling without using an actual argument, and meaningless buzzwords ("funneling") to make productive conversation impossible in the first place, and are inappropriate for HN.
You lack any form of logical reasoning in this reply as well. You just sound upset that an admin did something you don't want, but somehow understand already exists?
I think you are upset that HN is turning into Reddit, while also encouraging Reddit behaviour. That's the only logical conclusion to draw from your over-sized word sandwich out of nowhere.
xrayarx, I hope you don't mind! It's on my list to implement proper karma sharing for cases like this. In the meantime we sometimes resort to the crude manual approach.