GuySrinivasan comments on Official Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Suggestions - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Louie 20 April 2011 05:56PM

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Comment author: GuySrinivasan 20 April 2011 07:49:54PM 8 points [-]

I have a visceral negative reaction to all the random things people want to use "karma" for. Also I have no idea what The Nebulous Community (TM) wants to use karma for. It seems to be a "numbers go up people get happier" + anti-spam + anti-troll + "posts and comments have numbers why don't we sum them" metric. Do I have that about right?

Comment author: Armok_GoB 20 April 2011 07:58:55PM 5 points [-]

I tend to treat it as an automated implementation of the Status system humans have but doesn't work well here due to Dunbars number type problems.

Comment author: jsalvatier 21 April 2011 01:23:46AM 1 point [-]

yep.