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Xichekolas on Feb 5, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: New Comment Features

Give people a status symbol and they invariably try to attain it.

DanielBMarkham on Feb 5, 2009 [–]

I'm amazed that you would have a karma system, special colored status indicators, and yet people would still claim that it doesn't affect user behavior.

That's the point, guys. If the karma/colored system didn't affect user behavior, it wouldn't be there

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