Actual humans are afraid of being considered obnoxious, stupid or antisocial. Karma loss is just an indication that perception may be heading in that direction.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 05 September 2012 03:02:20PM 4 points [-]

Attempts to avoid karma loss by procedural hacks are a stronger indication...

Comment author: Kindly 05 September 2012 03:26:22PM 6 points [-]

This is how lost purposes form. Once you've figured out that karma loss is a sign of something bad, you start avoiding it even when it's not a sign of that bad thing.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 07 September 2012 08:45:39AM -1 points [-]

Maybe wedrifid is taking that into account and renormalizing. It's hard to tell.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 September 2012 03:25:26PM -2 points [-]

Attempts to avoid karma loss by procedural hacks are a stronger indication...

Of something different.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 06 September 2012 01:43:20PM 0 points [-]

Of people assigning excessive weight to very small changes in signaling?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 September 2012 03:44:46PM 2 points [-]

Yes.

I don't think it's any weirder than viewing losing karma as an entertaining game.

Comment author: bbleeker 05 September 2012 11:28:51PM 1 point [-]

I don't understand - what fee? Would Jonathan_Graehl get more downvotes if he replied directly to kateblu? Why?

Comment author: TimS 05 September 2012 11:58:58PM 4 points [-]

There's a new "feature" that replies to sufficiently negative karma posts instantly lose 5 karma.

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