HACKER Q&A
📣 tonymet

Should members receive karma credit for long nested comment threads?


I've noticed low-karma comments can often trigger long comment discussions. These comments should receive transitive karma. e.g. a comment with 50 sub-comments should receive subcomment-karma-factor X 50.

It could incentivize members who write stimulating yet "less conforming" comments

  👤 onion2k Accepted Answer ✓
Whenever Internet points are used to incentivize behavior besides "you did something someone else thought was worthy of an Internet point" it always has unintended consequences. You can't control how a system is used by offering extra points without fucking it up.