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People like this can make or break a community. Most of them just enjoy helping people. But then there are also a few who is in it for the power, as a community is like a small kingdom, their goal is to work their way up to get admin powers. Luckily you can only downvote once on HN. Imagine if you could shadowban people after 20k karma on HN.



This oddly resonates with this article I read yesterday:

https://pointieststick.com/2020/12/29/how-kde-can-transcend-...

Nate has a look at the cycle of "early adopters, late adopters, and people who come for money and power" in every niche.




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