Gondolinian comments on [Informal/Colloquial] Open Survey: Ideas for Improving Less Wrong - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gondolinian 10 June 2015 02:18:06PM *  1 point [-]

Ideas from recent discussion regarding changes to the karma system and/or addition of new sections:

[in progress]

Make downvotes cost some of the downvoter's karma. (h/t RichardKennaway and Houshalter)

Only allow users with a certain amount of karma to downvote. (The actual amount can be worked out later.) (h/t ete and Houshalter)

Create a new and separate from Main and Discussion section with either no karma, like the SSC discussions, or only upvotes, like Tumblr, Facebook and other social media services used by rationalists.

Create a new section for links to interesting posts on external rationalist blogs. (h/t Houshalter) [I apologize for the overlap with the previous poll; I found this idea only after I'd made it.]

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Comment author: Gondolinian 11 June 2015 07:10:32PM *  0 points [-]

Keep the same upvote/downvote system for individual comments and posts, but don't keep a total karma score for each user on their user page. Alternatively, keep a total karma score, but don't keep a total percent-positive score. (I believe the EA forum uses the former system, and Reddit the latter, but please correct me if I'm wrong about this.)

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Comment author: RyanCarey 10 June 2015 05:44:08PM 0 points [-]

Create a new section for links to interesting posts on external rationalist blogs

There already is 'recently on rationality blogs'

Comment author: Gondolinian 10 June 2015 06:05:53PM 2 points [-]

True, but that's only from a very limited number of sources (~4?); it doesn't include the dozens of smaller blogs. It's also a straight feed--no filtering out of housekeeping, meta posts, etc.--and it only shows 5 links which are quickly pushed aside by newer ones, while a section for links would keep all of them accessible and searchable.

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