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

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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)