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Suggest HN: earn karma for each flag after your own?

10 points by robfitz ↗ HN
There's lots of garbage on the /newest page with no incentive to police it. A new post requires something like 5 flags within an hour to be flagged into non-existence.

Since flagging away bad content is as important for overall quality as upvoting good content, I think flaggers should receive a karma point for each time the post is flagged after they've done it.

While I'm here, maybe a few more people can chip in on the new page, being more liberal with upvotes than you would be on the homepage, and flagging some of the junk. Rad.

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RealGeek
This may lead to a herd mentality and few users will flag every post they can find to earn karma. The bad content does not get up votes and automatically goes down hill.
atheken
I'm flagging this post.
mooism2
People already flag spam on the new page and I don't think we need another incentive to flag it.

If this change was brought in, it would need to be paired with some disincentive to discourage gratuitous flagging.

pohl
Brilliant suggestion. If HN needs anything it's more ruthless culling.
lazugod
That would not be discoverable.