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Comment author: TheOtherDave 31 May 2012 01:54:31PM 0 points [-]

Letting go of the assumption that karma means much above -3 would also go a long way. Karma is just here really to keep trolls away

I wonder how hard it would be to build a LW addon (like the antikibbitzer) that replaced numeric readouts with a tier label (e.g. "A" >=10, "F" for <=-3, etc.), and how using that would affect my experience of LW.

Comment author: RobertLumley 31 May 2012 01:56:48PM 0 points [-]

I think that would be pretty awkward, since posts would start in the "C" range. I think most people here would consider getting a "C" bad. But tiers make for an interesting concept, if you move away from grades.

Comment author: Emile 31 May 2012 08:40:41PM 0 points [-]

Use the fact that the date is also displayed to give a "?" instead for posts less than a day old, or have thresholds that move a bit for the first couple days.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 31 May 2012 06:17:36PM 0 points [-]

Sure; the specific tier thresholds are secondary and might even be user-definable parameters, so people don't need to know what tier they're in on my screen, if knowing that would make them feel bad.