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It is interesting to me that the karma system continues to be a discussion on LW.
Is there a correct answer to what an optimized karma system entails? How optimized is the current system? Do people really care that much?
At this point, a high comment score signals to me (A) good, useful comment and (b) someone who is super invloved in LW and LW-approved stuff like CFAR or MIRI or whatever. I'd say A is the dominant signal, but B is getting stronger all the time.
As far as mass-downvoting, I think it is problem for some users and I believe there has got to be some way to mitigate its effects. I sense a apathy from whoever makes the decisions to do anything about mass-downvoting, or the karma system writ large. Why? Who knows. I'm apathetic about their apathy.
I don't feel this is very much an issue with the karma system, just a problem with "mean people suck". No matter what technical system is in place, there will probably be some ways for people to be meanies---sending lots of nasty personal messages from behind a TOR proxy, for instance. The fact that in this case they decided to (ab)use the voting system is incidental, and a solution need not involve making any dramatic changes to how the voting mechanisms work.