khafra comments on Meta: What do you think of a karma vote checklist? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 04 September 2012 03:44:51PM 3 points [-]

Again, an idea with prior art--Slashdot and SensibleErection both used this for an order of magnitude longer than LW has been around; SE even adds reasons, sometimes, for special occasions. However, newer forums like reddit and Hacker News (even with its quality obsession) have abandoned those methods in favor of a simple scalar vote.