MrHen comments on Karma Changes - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 December 2009 12:17AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 22 December 2009 01:29:11AM *  9 points [-]

Note that downvoting a post costs 10 karma from your downvote cap of 4x current karma.

Does it mean 10/4 actual karma (10 points of downvote cap), or 10*4 points of downvote cap (10 points of actual karma)? (I expect the former.)

The number of remaining downvote points should be visible, otherwise at some point people run into a brick wall that should be avoided by calibrating the rate of downvoting rather than by being unable to make high-certainty downvotes. Even better, allow unrestricted downvoting, but recalculate the efficacy of downvotes based on voter's karma and number of downvotes.

Comment author: MrHen 22 December 2009 03:04:16PM *  3 points [-]

Voted up for displaying the number of remaining downvotes but I'm not a big fan of sliding karma effects.