Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Voting etiquette - Less Wrong

8 Post author: gjm 05 April 2009 02:28PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 April 2009 07:53:37PM 0 points [-]

Well, we've got a pretty wide consensus that upvoting your own comments should not increase your karma. At least it looks like a wide consensus to me, based on admittedly biased and small sampling data. With any luck this is simple - with any unluck it's not.

Comment author: thomblake 07 April 2009 03:14:58PM 1 point [-]

upvoting your own comments should not increase your karma

One problem with fixing this is that a quick hack to remove the karma from a self-upvote might break if/when self-upvoting is removed entirely. Of course, this might be avoided merely by the relevant programmer bearing this possibility in mind.