My question would be: why the secrecy? HN worried that transparency about the processes of ratings & their "rewards" (which (plus + $5.00) will buy you a cappuccino) would lead to abuse of the system?
I think openness system would allow for HN viewers to discuss the value of different site-karma processes -- enabling the site designers (and all of us) to benefit more from the community's collective genius and experience (on this issue the way it does on others).
It's simpler than you think. As moderately dangerous new features got added, I gave them karma thresholds to avoid abuse. Since there's no man page there's nowhere to list them all. Most got explained individually in News News though.
Thanks for the reply.
That leads me rather automatically to rephrase my question: "Why no man page?"
And (sorry to be such a newb) what is News News? Do you mean just http://news.ycombinator.com/news ? If so the SEARCH button/form is proving hard for me to find !?¿?!
Great lead, frisco.
Perhaps if they eventually get stable and maybe offers some "advanced search" YC will want to incorporate it into HN site. [or at least put a link to it atop HN page - why should visitors have to ask a question to know where to go for a search feature?]
It's speed seems excellent (early on a Monday morning).
