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Comment karma!
Somewhere there needs to be formulas explaining exactly how you compute the sorting for the LW top tabs, and for the various numbers sitting next to posts and comments, all in terms of the various voting actions that are done. I'm really quite confused about it all.
I have mixed feelings about karma; even without karma, I was finding myself a bit too interested in seeing how many points my comments got. But perhaps other people are better at ignoring gold stars than I am, or perhaps the effects of people attending to others' responses are net-positive.
I am definitely no better than Anna at ignoring gold stars. I think the situation might be improved if the "top contributors" box wasn't there on the right margin looking temptingly like a scoreboard.
Agreed, we need this and soon.
What exactly do you mean by this. In other words how would it be used? The codebase has the concept of comment karma already. However when presented in the UI, 'Karma' is the sum of comment karma and submission karma.
Right now, karma only seems to be including submission karma, no comment karma.
E.g. this user with many upvoted comments and karma 1.
Comment Karma does affect the "Top Contributors" ranking, though - I did a self-deprication experiment. And strangely enough I fell off the list shortly after you wrote the above link :-)
What's jimrandomh's dark secret?
An unpublished draft that was upvoted?
With comment karma we should definitely stop trying to use upvotes and downvotes for opinion polls.
Yeah, we need "agree" "disagree".