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Emile comments on Negative karma is a bad design - Less Wrong Discussion
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Rather than fixing hypothetical future problems, I would rather have work spent on fixing things that cause problems now, for example:
when you click on a permalink to a single comment (like those you find in your mailbox, or in the recent comments), the whole thread it's in is marked as read (and won't be in green any more)
There is no way to see the upovote / downvote split on posts and comments, only upvotes minus downvotes (though I'm not sure that would be such an improvement, it's just something a lot of people ask for; there recent "poll" feature may be a better way)
(unless of course you were planning on implementing, testing and submitting the fix yourself!)
Being discussed somewhere does not show it is real. Personally, 'people are cycling from account to account to evade karma limits' doesn't seem like a real problem...
Can you be more specific on what you think the problem is?
I agree that the current (downvoting + minimum karma for Discussion) dynamic encourages creating new accounts, holding everything else equal. But I'm not sure what the downside of inflated registered-user numbers is - there's not much sock-puppetry locally, so it isn't clear how additional registrations can be considered relevant to signal-to-noise issues.
And there are tangible benefits to the downvoting system (helps increase quality posts, crowd-sourcing basic moderation).
Ah, cool!
Then, I have much less to complain about, offers of help are much more useful than suggestions from back seat drivers :)
I agree on both, but I think you should have this as a separate discussion thread.
Well, though I also don't really want to start a new discussion on these (this kind of meta stuff doesn't add much value to the site), just say "these seem to be things people complain about even more".