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

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Comment author: MarkusRamikin 27 September 2011 02:05:51PM *  2 points [-]

Why not just have programmers post what they've done and let people upvote them for it?

Somehow I'm suspicious of any possibility of anyone's karma changing for other reasons than upvotes/downvotes.

Comment author: Caspian 01 October 2011 02:35:02AM 0 points [-]

That is a good base to compare the karma donation proposal to.

Some differences in the proposal:

  • The task posts are not specified to be in the main post area.
  • The votes cost the voter karma - in terms of karma, they are zero sum.
  • The votes can be worth more than 10 karma.
  • The voter has to pick the vote value rather than use a fixed value.
  • The vote value is limited by the voter's total karma.
  • The votes are pre-committed to, after the task description is made but before the task is completed, and don't apply until it's completed.
  • Down votes are not available.
  • The example task descriptions are much shorter than typical posts.
  • The system needs coding rather than using the existing code.

Not sure if I've missed anything major, some of those differences only occurred to me after I thought I'd finished (e.g. lack of down votes)

Comment author: khafra 27 September 2011 04:08:56PM 0 points [-]

Changes to the user interface already get posted. Most changes to parts other than the user interface would be unutterably boring to many people, and do not contribute very specifically toward the goal of LW.

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