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There is no scarcity with upvotes. If I have an infinite amount of money to spend, I will spend it without prudence.

Cap the number of upvotes that a user gets each day and give explicit feedback on how many upvotes that they have left.

>>pkaler+(OP)
Past N votes in a day, a vote should cost a karma point.

>>pkaler+(OP)
I think this is indeed a low hanging fruit. Upvoting should have some negative side effect or limit that makes you think for a split second if you really want to do it.

In articles: personally I only upvote only those articles that I really want to see in my "saved stories".

So one might make voting comments clutter something for the voter and I think that most hackers like to keep things beautiful, clean and searchable if possible. Might work better for articles than comments though.

>>pkaler+(OP)
Perlmonks does this, and based on your total karma you are given a higher daily limit to spend. Works quite well.

>>staunc+v9
"... Perlmonks does this, and based on your total karma you are given a higher daily limit to spend. Works quite well. ..."

I always think of the Perlmonk progression as a good idea. It will require a radical departure in use/interaction and might be seen as too controlled. PM had the advantage of doing this from the start (as far as I know) PM #244776

>>bootlo+fc
Perlmonks had that as part of the structure from the time I arrived there. Which was in the first few months.

>>btilly+3t
"... Perlmonks had that as part of the structure from the time I arrived there. ..."

It certainly works. I always go there ready to really think twice before I post & you learn. HN appears to be more OpEd a lot of the times.

>>bootlo+Vt
Perlmonks certainly works. However I don't think that the level system is the reason. My opinion is that the real reason is that a good community was established early, and then a focused remit maintained it.

Ironically that is one of the reasons why I lost interest. My interests moved on. A small fraction of the conversations taught me anything interesting. And so I drifted away. However the focused remit is essential for maintaining that community as it is, even if I am no longer that big a part of it.

Incidentally I am http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=tilly there, and http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=754085 describes some of the early history of how it came to be as it is.