wilkox 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: 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.