Suggest HN: earn karma for each flag after your own?
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This may lead to a herd mentality and few users will flag every post they can find to earn karma. The bad content does not get up votes and automatically goes down hill.
People already flag spam on the new page and I don't think we need another incentive to flag it.
If this change was brought in, it would need to be paired with some disincentive to discourage gratuitous flagging.
If this change was brought in, it would need to be paired with some disincentive to discourage gratuitous flagging.
Brilliant suggestion. If HN needs anything it's more ruthless culling.
That would not be discoverable.
I'm flagging this post.
Since flagging away bad content is as important for overall quality as upvoting good content, I think flaggers should receive a karma point for each time the post is flagged after they've done it.
While I'm here, maybe a few more people can chip in on the new page, being more liberal with upvotes than you would be on the homepage, and flagging some of the junk. Rad.