Miller comments on Theists are wrong; is theism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Miller 20 January 2011 10:08:12AM *  -1 points [-]

Yes. Next. I think this post demonstrates the need for downvotes to be a a greater than 1.0 multiple of upvotes. What argument is there otherwise other than the status quo?

Comment author: shokwave 20 January 2011 03:00:02PM 1 point [-]

What argument is there otherwise other than the status quo?

To the extent that positive karma is a reward for the poster and an indication of what people desire to see (both very true), we should not expect a distribution about the mean of zero. If the average comment is desirable and deserving of reward, then the average comment will be upvoted.

Comment author: Miller 20 January 2011 11:21:37PM 1 point [-]

I didn't say anything about centering on zero, and agree that would be incorrect. However, modification to the current method is likely challenging and no one's actually going to do any novel karma engineering here so it was a silly comment for me to make.