Blueberry comments on Creating a Less Wrong prediction market - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Kevin 26 February 2010 11:48AM

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Comment author: Blueberry 26 February 2010 04:29:17PM 0 points [-]

What? No, you would lose 4 karma every time you did that (+1 from the upvote; -5 from the transfer). The karma transfers are zero-sum. Though, you could give half the people who upvote this 1 karma and come out ahead.

Comment author: thomblake 26 February 2010 05:48:12PM 4 points [-]

I was reading "this" as "this post" - one upvote is worth 10 karma, so that's +5 for each of them.

Comment author: Kevin 26 February 2010 07:35:59PM 1 point [-]

Yes, "this" meant the post, not the comment.

Comment author: Blueberry 28 February 2010 01:07:44AM 0 points [-]

Oh. Yeah. That makes a lot more sense. Sorry.

Comment author: Larks 26 February 2010 04:37:01PM 1 point [-]

He could give them karma by upvoting their comments. No-one's suggesting a finite amount of karma.

Comment author: Blueberry 26 February 2010 04:42:58PM 0 points [-]

Oh. Yeah. You're right. I guess we should have a rule that karma transfers should be zero-sum, and you shouldn't upvote a post unless you actually like that particular post.