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I can report that I have a great many things I think might greatly contribute, but never post anything because I am absolutly unable to handle even a low risk of geting downvoted due to mental helth issues. I utterly despise the karma system for this reason and it has basicaly robed LW of my entire public contribution, wich could have been great. I routinely use only PMs to avoid these issues when I think I can help somone specific, but often I dont know who to contact.
What if you had a script that hid downvotes? Or one that used an unknown algorithm to hide all downvotes and also some upvotes so a lack of upvotes could still mean that you really got upvoted? Or maybe one that added fake downvotes so that you would never have certain knowledge of having been really downvoted? Etc. Personally I like your commenting and would enjoy more of it.
because a) The very rationality habits I've learnt here finds it extremely anaesthetic to hide information from myself like that. b) My brain would default to assuming everything that might have been downvoted has so, and thus only have problems more often. c) The culture that having the voting system in general causes would still be there, and what really hurts is the status loss from people wanting to downvote me, not losing the arbitrary point total.
Why not post on your own blog, and occasionally link worthwhile content from open threads?
Having your own blog is pretty much LW without the karma.
Because then his links could be downvoted.
I have a G+ account and a twitter, and find myself never using them. Turns out I don't have anything to say to the audience "people who follow me personally", and if I use it only for what you propose I might as well use Pastebin, with is really silly.