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Comment author: Cyan 22 February 2010 02:38:54AM 5 points [-]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the bunny is about 75,119 times cuter than the baby.

You're wrong. That baby is way cuter than the bunny.

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Comment author: RobinZ 22 February 2010 02:42:24AM * 52 points [-]

Karma balance to baby-vs-bunny poll.

Comment author: Cyan 22 February 2010 03:08:21AM 2 points [-]

Another problem with polling this way is that we can't tell how many people voted.

Comment author: taw 22 February 2010 01:34:31PM 3 points [-]

The proper way is to have two comments: Vote up if bunnies are cuter. Vote down if babies are cuter.

You karma whore positive karma if your predictions as for which option would be more popular turn out to be true.

Awesome poll + prediction market in karma - what not to like?

Comment author: jimrandomh 22 February 2010 01:43:40PM 0 points [-]

People wouldn't vote honestly if they thought their votes were tied to someone's karma.

Comment author: RobinZ 22 February 2010 05:29:21PM 3 points [-]

Three comments: upvote-for-bunnies, upvote-for-babies, karma-balance. You only upvote one of the first two, so you only need one balance.

Comment author: taw 22 February 2010 02:02:29PM 1 point [-]

Do people care about karma that much?

Comment author: Cyan 22 February 2010 02:24:55PM 1 point [-]

People who care enough to rig a poll to give them expected karma probably also care enough to be sensitive to the tactic.

Comment author: taw 22 February 2010 03:42:19PM 3 points [-]

I liked that downvote. I'm only 1k karmapoints short of getting into the sidebar, so maybe I should rig a few polls - are kittens cute, is evolution true etc. ;-p

Comment author: [deleted] 22 February 2010 02:50:53AM 2 points [-]

You shouldn't have made the comment announcing the poll double as one of the poll options. Now if this option gets voted down sufficiently far, it will be invisible to anyone who's not sufficiently curious to click the "show" button.

Comment author: RobinZ 22 February 2010 02:53:57AM 0 points [-]

That occurred to me about two votes in. With a bit of luck...

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