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sanxiyn comments on Negative karma is a bad design - Less Wrong Discussion

-9 Post author: sanxiyn 13 December 2012 11:27AM

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Comment author: sanxiyn 13 December 2012 02:17:16PM 7 points [-]
  • This came up on #lesswrong IRC channel, it was not a hypothetical future problem at all.
  • Yes, I was planning on implementing, testing, submitting the fix myself.
Comment author: gwern 14 December 2012 01:27:20AM 6 points [-]

This came up on #lesswrong IRC channel, it was not a hypothetical future problem at all.

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...

Comment author: TimS 13 December 2012 07:42:05PM *  3 points [-]

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).

Comment author: Emile 13 December 2012 04:06:46PM 2 points [-]

Ah, cool!

Then, I have much less to complain about, offers of help are much more useful than suggestions from back seat drivers :)

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