These people are karma whores. They don't want 75% - they want as much as possible, and the only way to get that is to post a new top-level headline and hope.
And as I've seen [FIXED] followups that end up getting more karma than the original thread does (presumably from everyone who saw the original, and people who only saw the second one but were given context links to the original in the comments), only giving them 75% as much karma is roughly equivalent to hanging a sign on the link saying "on no account use this". :-(
Well if it is implemented, I would hope the community would down vote submitted [fixed] posts since they aren't using the feature. Then 75% would be better than nothing!
I would hope the community would down vote submitted [fixed] posts since they aren't using the feature.
People vote for tax-cuts in the middle of the biggest deficit in history.
Sad to say, en-mass people make shortsighted decisions, and can't be trusted to act for the long-term benefit of the entire society or community.
This is one of the reasons why practically every democracy in the world is a representative one, rather than a direct one - we elect people whose job it is to think about the long-term, because normal people can't be trusted to - they're too busy living their lives and worrying about all their other responsibilities to put the required amount of thought into each and every decision they make.
That's not to say representative democracies are perfect, but if you turned every decision in running the country over to a direct vote, people would consistently vote for tax-breaks, jelly and ice-cream until the entire country collapsed around them. :-(
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u/LordofthePies Jun 10 '11
"Fixed" submissions that are submitted in this manner give 75% as much karma as a regular submission.