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That kudos circle is a feature of the blog platform, Svtble. I agree that it is terribly designed. Svtble’s creator wrote an unconvincing defense of Kudos: http://dcurt.is/unkudo. See discussion of Kudos on Svtble’s original announcement story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742654, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3743125.

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I didn't know what you were talking about until I went back and accidentally kudos'd the post myself. The creators "defense" sounds more like an FU or maybe that the whole thing is really more of a joke. In the end, I'm not upset that I accidentally kudos'd since to me it's pretty clear that the whole feature is meaningless anyway.

I think everyone misfires a kudos on their first visit to a Svtble site. They could at least add an undo button.

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