Douglas_Knight comments on Voting etiquette - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 05 April 2009 10:55:43PM 4 points [-]

I may not understand this proposal, but... I think the current system of comments starting at +1 is good because people react badly to negative numbers and zero. That self-vote counting for total karma is bad, but that is easily fixed by subtracting 1 before computing total karma.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 06 April 2009 09:22:42AM 1 point [-]

I don't see any reason why karma couldn't be calculated based on votes, disallowing self votes, but the default comment score be something other than 0.