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Alex_Altair comments on Open Thread, January 15-31, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Alex_Altair 16 January 2012 06:32:47PM 1 point [-]

I have previous thought that maybe karma should be hidden until after you vote.

But then there's the problem where part of the point of karma is to tell you whether something is worth reading. If karma was hidden until after voting, users would still have their total karma to motivate them, and we could still hide sufficiently negative comments.

Maybe we should hide comment karma before voting, but not article karma?