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aeontech on April 17, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Haiku Operating System

I've enjoyed the discussion above, so I think it was a worthy submission. I guess I don't really understand why people are bothered by someone getting those priceless karma points even if it is a repost.

pestaa on April 18, 2013 [–]

I think most people don't care about karma farmers, but I think you'll agree that karma farmers' submissions often increase the noise rather than the signal.

aeontech on April 18, 2013 | [–]

What's noise for you is signal for someone else and vice versa, isn't that why it's a hard problem to solve?

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