Dentin comments on [moderator action] Eugine_Nier is now banned for mass downvote harassment - Less Wrong

107 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 03 July 2014 12:04PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 July 2014 09:42:13PM 3 points [-]

First, I'm not sure if I agree with the ban, but I would allow EN to post one last apologia at least.

Second, considering karma as a property of users rather than of comments is toxic. Let's stop it. Let's consider the sum of all comments and post that happen to be written by the same person no more meaningful than the sum of all comments and post that happen to be posted the same day.

If we must rank users, e.g. to decide whom to allow to post articles, let's have a system where users can rate each other directly (but anonymously). Maybe make higher-ranked users' ratings count more (i.e. each user's score is proportional to the component of the eigenvector of the matrix of ratings with the largest eigenvalue).

Comment author: Dentin 05 July 2014 02:19:46AM 1 point [-]

It may be interesting to have comment rank be the sum of positive and negative votes, while user rank counts only the positive votes.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 06 July 2014 11:56:38PM 2 points [-]

It may be interesting to have comment rank be the sum of positive and negative votes,

I'd personally like that, and think it's a great point.

Where we disagree is much more interesting than where we agree. That's where we can really learn something.