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Then people would start gaming the system. Language would be extremely constrained, most likely always positive and upbeat, all that shit.

Kinda like LinkedIn these days.

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Well, it's hard to game the system over the long term especially on a platform like HN, where not every positive comment is rewarded. If the model uses any temporal aspect, then gaming it is gonna be pretty hard.

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