Ask YC: Should we raise the karma threshold for creating polls?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126955

by moog • 18 years ago

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Or how about you have to buy them for 50 points a pop?

robg4• 18 years ago

Nah. If they're valued they'll get upvoted.

yters2• 18 years ago

They're pretty much the same as all the Ask YC posts anyways.

robg4• 18 years ago

But the summary is so much cleaner, especially for things like age.

rms• 18 years ago

Shouldn't this be a poll?

inklesspen• 18 years ago

He hasn't got the karma. :D

robg4• 18 years ago

Maybe add the votes to the post total though? It seems folks are voting in the poll but forgetting to upvote. For instance, right now, if 20 people vote in a poll, it seems like it would be interesting to the rest of the community. Plus, isn't a vote in the poll a marker of interest in said poll?

moog• 18 years ago

I think you'd have to weight the number of votes cast to ensure polls are fairly upvoted. Promoting based solely on the vote count may skew the main page.

robg4• 18 years ago

What about an adjustment like votes/time = hotness?

dfranke• 18 years ago

That's absurd. If they have to be that strongly discouraged, they shouldn't exist at all.

procrastitron• 18 years ago

"they shouldn't exist at all."

I think this version works much better.

izak30• 18 years ago

I really like the idea of polls, I think that they would get a better idea of where people stood with actions then just their votes for a good idea (where do you host is one that immediately comes to mind) (do you have funding) (how many startups have you been involved in that have failed)

..mostly I'd like to get some stats on the community in general, and polls are a good way to do it...

As for the karma idea, I think polls are more valuable to newbies than many others, so a karma threshold may not be the right answer.

flyhighplato• 18 years ago

Kinda. I think putting a poll should involve spending some karma points.

If a poll cost 50-100 karma points to create, anyone who posts a poll would make sure they were interesting.

mdemare• 18 years ago

Also, it would be fun if karma were actually good for something.

randrews• 18 years ago

You're not spending 50 karma, you're investing it. If your poll gets 51 upvotes, it was worth it.

aston• 18 years ago

That's actually not quite true. Over some limit (maybe around 20), upvotes stop counting directly to karma.

Ask YC: Should we raise the karma threshold for creating polls?

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