orthonormal comments on Voting etiquette - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 05 April 2009 04:14:56PM 0 points [-]

I'm not convinced that karma is working so well; what's rewarded by the system is prolific posting at least as much as high-quality posting. Doing away with the auto-self-upvote (and making it impossible to upvote one's own comments) seems likely to be an improvement. Or maybe making each comment count for (say) 1/4 as much as an upvote.

Ditto on this. I also suggest that only post points should count for "Top Contributors"; time spent in the comments is certainly worthy, but it seems to be much cheaper to get points that way.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 05 April 2009 06:16:54PM *  5 points [-]

A very important factor in your post points is whether Eliezer decides to promote your post. If he doesn't, it doesn't show up on the home page.

For this reason, I would be more in favor of this idea if lesswrong.com pointed to 'new' instead of 'promoted'.

I'm not saying that I want lesswrong.com to point to 'new'. I'm aware that there's a reason for pointing it to 'promoted'. I'm explaining that my utility function incorporates a dependency between these two decisions.

Comment author: billswift 06 April 2009 03:52:16PM 0 points [-]

Set your favorites to point to new, that's what I do.

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