"I guess my point is that Hacker News is being gamed the way reddit and digg are."
Only if you think the "game" is to accumulate karma. For me, the submissions are merely seeds around which insightful discussions grow.
Only if you think the "game" is to accumulate karma. For me, the submissions are merely seeds around which insightful discussions grow.
It's not simply a function of karma, though, but whether we recognize the username as someone who seems smart.
But here is something close: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=136837
Karma is taken into account when you apply. That is incentive enough to attempt to game HN.