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Tomte · 2018-07-29 08:07:52

As far as I know, karma doesn't help submissions.

muzani | karma 8388 | avg karma 1.47 · | 2019-08-07 04:58:53+00:00

To my understanding, submissions don't give any karma at all.

erikbye | karma 1418 | avg karma 1.57 · | 2022-04-06 07:29:34

Unfortunately, it seems karma is the only incentive for many users to submit stories.

sbarre | karma 10170 | avg karma 4.57 · | 2013-07-04 12:04:13

At a bare minimum it encourages submissions?

I know that might sound trite, and it's obviously not the only factor, but I bet if karma went away, you would see a measurable decline in submissions over time.

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jbicha | karma 79 | avg karma 1.36 · | 2013-05-18 20:21:30

Without karma it's very difficult to submit links that anyone will see.

jaredsohn | karma 2906 | avg karma 1.91 · | 2012-04-20 21:23:43

People do get karma from article submissions.

Several ideas related to limiting the influence of article submissions were made here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554

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roflyear | karma 1861 | avg karma 0.82 · | 2023-03-15 21:29:09

Karma is garbage. Best sites don't use it.

gruez | karma 34333 | avg karma 2.33 · | 2017-11-13 15:14:45

>comment scores don't affect karma, only submissions.

false. there are separate karma counters for submissions and comments.

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davidw | karma 63893 | avg karma 3.82 · | 2008-03-10 18:05:18+00:00

I wish karma represented something useful:-/ It doesn't.

Rinum | karma 174 | avg karma 1.69 · | 2013-01-24 04:55:41+00:00

Does it not? I thought higher karma results in your submissions and comments being ranked higher/viewed more.

ericfontaine | karma 87 | avg karma 1.98 · | 2015-03-14 15:20:21+00:00

If karma doesn't matter, then that is an argument for not having up votes for comments either.

DeusExMachina | karma 7352 | avg karma 7.04 · | 2021-04-19 19:22:29+00:00

There is something more than that. I noticed that the few highly-voted submissions I have didn't add the whole amount to my karma.

aston | karma 6570 | avg karma 4.21 · | 2008-06-11 15:46:00

Easy option: Submissions from sites that always get upmodded don't add to the user's karma.

sctb | karma 8073 | avg karma 1.38 · | 2016-12-06 10:44:04

Karma doesn't directly influence story submissions, so I don't think there's a feedback loop there (if that's what you mean).

temiri | karma 57 | avg karma 1.97 · | 2013-01-14 17:10:05

Well, does karma have any value?

jzombie | karma 356 | avg karma 0.91 · | 2023-05-20 08:54:44

No docs, just an obseevation:

It appears that karma for submissions doesn't add to the tally, only comments.

I was literally just thinking about this as well when I had observed that on my own account and noticed this thread.

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dang | karma 18142 | avg karma 0.25 · | 2019-07-05 17:51:53+00:00

Karma doesn't affect it. It's really mostly random.

rcfox | karma 5508 | avg karma 4.7 · | 2010-09-17 18:40:01

I disagree. Most of my karma has come from submitting good articles.

pg | karma 157316 | avg karma 14.62 · | 2011-09-23 17:50:24+00:00

The karma of the submitter has no effect on how a story is ranked. Nor I suspect does it affect whether people upvote the story, except when the submitter is one of maybe 100 HN users who are well enough known that their username as submitter makes people pay attention to the story. Plus if we noticed anyone consistently rewriting titles we'd ask them to stop and eventually ban them if they didn't.