Konkvistador comments on Please do not downvote every comment or post someone has ever made as a retaliation tactic. - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Will_Newsome 21 August 2011 12:35PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 August 2011 10:04:58PM *  2 points [-]

Public user karma graphs for users as well as posts seem an interesting if slightly cluttering user interface addition [a neat little graph icon next to the quote bubbles and the chain link], that might help combat this while having the neat benefit of making it easier to infer all sorts of things.

Comment author: khafra 22 August 2011 12:43:04PM 10 points [-]

I see my karma go up without anything on my first page of comments changing all the time; it makes me wish I could see all recent changes to my karma so I could go back and participate in any older discussions that might be re-opening.

Comment author: RobertLumley 24 August 2011 06:31:46PM 2 points [-]

Upvoting isn't enough. I agree so much. I'm marginally obsessive about it - I don't have very many, so I'm often able to sift through my comments and see what has changed.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 26 August 2011 02:01:58PM 1 point [-]

I don't have the link handy (the site could also use much better search), but I've mentioned wanting the same thing for the same reasons.

Comment author: wilkox 21 August 2011 11:09:37PM 2 points [-]

Perhaps sparklines would work for this. They compress the recent history of a measurement in a space-efficient way which can fit inline with text.

Comment author: shokwave 25 August 2011 11:07:39AM 0 points [-]

They would fit neatly next to the upvote / downvote buttons.

However nicely they would fit, they should not be used, though. I am in the mind of the diagram about the effect Google's proxy is having on web content - to the extent that karma is not a perfect proxy for good content, sparklines will make it easier to identify that proxy and where it can be gamed.