Ask HN: I am quiting HN, its rigged

Anyway, why do you care? I have stupendous amounts of karama but a lot of my submissions sink like a stone anyway, other times I post something that I consider amusing but unimportant and am surprised to find it sitting at the top of the front page hours later. It's not like there's some special store where you get to exchange karma points for cash/equity/delicious cake, although if anyone wants to set that up I would be totally supportive of it.

This isn't the first time you've got upset about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9241171 I suggest you stop worrying about it.

Also in the pictures they are completely different titles. I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to prove.

Surely you would agree that the algorithm should consider other factors, such as time between votes, who voted, and so on?

HN is "rigged" in that it has a set of rules that influence ranking. If you don't like those rules, yeah, you won't like it here. If you have some overdeveloped idea about how much attention you "deserve" or something, yeah, you probably won't like it here. HN doesn't exist as some venue for your personal convenience. It is a) part of the business strategy for Y-Combinator and b) a community. Every community has to find ways to balance diverse interests. And since it has a bona fide business purpose, that will come first, before other things. You can thus expect it to remain "rigged" and not live up to whatever imagined ideals you think it should ascribe to. FWIW, I think the fact that it is "rigged" is part of why it is one of the better things on the web.

ciao