Jack comments on How to incentivize people doing useful stuff on Less Wrong - Less Wrong

20 Post author: lukeprog 27 September 2011 01:26AM

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Comment author: Jack 27 September 2011 02:16:06AM 5 points [-]

Do we think the 10:1 ration between top-level main posts and discussion posts/comments accurately represents the differing value of those contributions? The question matters more the more value we give to karma.

Comment author: shokwave 27 September 2011 11:15:29AM 6 points [-]

Maybe it doesn't accurately represent the differing value (for instance, I think of discussion as anywhere from 1/5th to 1/3rd of main), but the downvotes being worth 10 as well is critical - it keeps less-approved of things well off the front page, which is important for newcomers.