Lumifer comments on Upcoming LW Changes - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Vaniver 03 February 2016 05:34AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 10 February 2016 07:51:44PM 0 points [-]

This would prevent karma gain from "interest" on old comments

If you want to reward having a long history of comments, you could prohibit only downvoting of old comments.

it wouldn't prevent ongoing retributive downvoting

I doubt you could algorithmically distinguish between downvoting a horticulture post because of disagreements about horticulture and downvoting a horticulture post because of disagreements about some other topic.

But I suspect voting rate limiters should keep the problem in check.