AlexanderD comments on [META] Retributive downvoting: Why? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlexanderD 28 November 2012 12:20:14PM 0 points [-]

This seems to me like the best way to do it. I am sure it has been proposed before that downvoting cost a point of karma; why was this alternative not taken? Technical considerations, perhaps?

Comment author: mwengler 28 November 2012 06:38:50PM 0 points [-]

Hard to believe it is technical considerations. If you try to comment on a downvoted post (try it here for example) you will get a pop-up asking if you want to pay 5 karma points to comment on a downvoted post or not. So paying karma to do things seems like it is already implemented.

Comment author: handoflixue 30 November 2012 12:50:16AM -1 points [-]

Huh, neat, they finally implemented that. Thanks for pointing it out :)