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One thing that bothers me about LW is that comments and discussion posts had their karma divided by ten (rather than some more moderate number). Surely that has to have taken away too much of the incentive to post good comments, as well as made karma less informative as the measure of general quality of thought that some are taking it for.
I personally wish that people would more often gather their thoughts into coherent arguments and then made into posts, instead of spreading them over many comments. I've tried to encourage people to do this on individual occasions, but mostly without success.
I think this ultimately comes down to whether and to what degree we want to encourage quality over volume in top-level posts. On the whole I'm pretty happy with the current balance, but several of the recurring complaints about this site (i.e. meetup post density) do seem to stem from a lack of top-level volume, so I can see an argument for changing the weighting.
I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to say here. To be clear: All comments and discussion posts get one karma per vote. Posts on the main page get a times 10 multiplier. Which part of this do you object to?
Yes, I was consciously trying to frame it in the opposite way from how it's usually framed, because I'm worried that the way it's usually framed highlights the benefits more than the costs.
I think he may have been making a joke.
The phrasing was intentionally unusual and apparently confusing (for which I apologize), but the point was meant seriously, though I'm not confident of it. Multiplying main-page karma by 10 means the same as dividing the rest by 10, unless people care about absolute rather than relative amounts of karma.
Oh, I thought it was intended to be about status-quo bias or something.