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1. coding+(OP)[view] [source] 2009-03-09 06:53:23
Shouldn't these rep limits, and the information about them, be codified into the FAQ?
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2. allenb+j[view] [source] 2009-03-09 07:09:42
>>coding+(OP)
karma limits change all the time, due to "inflation." it used to be pretty difficult to get to 100 points. these days you could get there in a day or two, if you're determined.
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3. lacker+u[view] [source] 2009-03-09 07:20:33
>>coding+(OP)
No. Hacker News doesn't have to work the same way as Stack Overflow. Not only are these limits fluctuating and not really public, HN relies on human editors a lot.

That's okay; the models are really different. Stack Overflow needs to scale more because to be useful, there need to be thousands of questions asked every day, and every question needs to be able to get a response. Hacker News can be useful to me even if it only gets a hundred new stories a day, and it's not really a problem if many stories get axed for a bad reason.

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