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

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Comment author: bcoburn 06 September 2012 05:51:21AM 0 points [-]

Of course, this is a straightforward problem to fix in the mechanism design: Just make responses to downvoted comments start at -5 karma, instead of having a direct penalty, as suggested elsewhere. I think that suggestion was for unrelated reasons, but it also fixes this little loophole.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 September 2012 08:44:17AM 0 points [-]

This would discourage me much more than the current mechanism: I care very little about my total karma score. (I'm not saying it would be a good thing.