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user-inactivated  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me

I really want to try this experiment but fear I would never be able to reverse it.

The notion that redditors should be allotted just one upvote per day seemed to garner some popularity a while ago; I wonder what Facebook would look like if its users were limited to (say) 5 likes a day. Normally—in meatspace, that is—the entity responsible for issuing and overseeing a currency is at least minimally concerned about the possibility of devaluing that currency by over-printing. Facebook, and the other players (content creators, users, corporations), don't seem concerned in the least bit about the reckless "inflation" in the digital currency of likes.





mk  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In Hubski's first incarnation, you were slowly granted karma that could be spent on upvotes. If you didn't have karma, you couldn't vote until you gained some more.

coffeesp00ns  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·  

even now i feel like my "dots" are hard-won. and I give them away stringently. Badges even more so.

mk  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·  

IMO that's a good thing. Actually, I have the impression that the longer people stay on Hubski, the more selective they are with doling them out.

user-inactivated  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Actually, I have the impression that the longer people stay on Hubski, the more selective they are with doling them out.

I just gave you a badge in another thread because the phrase "my kingdom for a quaalude" made me laugh until I cried. Or more accurately I was already sort of crying.

But your point stands.