On: Bots, so many bots

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Karma is a number that can go up. Numbers going up is a supernormal stimulus for humans.

[criddell → hashmap]

They should get rid of the number and change it to be only "low" or "high".

[diggan → criddell]

Get rid of karma + get rid of ranking comments at all. Just render them in a tree-format with oldest/newest first, everyone has equal footing :)

[vunderba → hashmap]

True but at least for Hacker News you have to at least click through to the member profile to see how many banana stickers and external validation they've accrued.