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what about posts costing you karma? maybe the post is 1 karma, and each link in the post is an additional karma point. if it is a post of value, then you shou
by jdavid 19y ago
what about posts costing you karma?
maybe the post is 1 karma, and each link in the post is an additional karma point.
if it is a post of value, then you should earn at least more than 1 karma to replace it.
it makes your post an investment of karma. I think its a good lesson for entrepreneurs too.
- wastedbrains 19y agoI think that is a really interesting idea. The only issue would be if you hit 0 on your first post you could never post again. So if your at 0 you can post but only once per day or something until you post something that earns you karma. It is a simple system but seems like it could be very effective. Kudos
- cstejerean 19y agoBest suggestion I've heard so far.
- manvsmachine 19y agoGood idea, but how about instead of posts costing you karma, spam costs you karma. Then if your karma goes negative, you cannot post until it becomes positive again. That way it doesn't penalize new users with low karma, but it will only take two bad posts to render a spam account ineffective.
- tlrobinson 19y agoI like this idea, it's very much like the #xkcd-signal experiment, designed to force interesting conversation (especially a problem in certain IRC channels...) http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-attacking-noise-in-chat/ http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-at... It will also make non-spammers think twice about posting useless comments or submissions (assuming they either have low karma or actually care about their karma level)
- hooande 19y agoThe problem with this is that it's too easy for spammers to make new accounts for every post.Then all you do is limit the number of posts (which may or not be a good thing) without doing much to deter spam.
- jdavid 19y agoOk, now that i think about it. Maybe a chemical response is more effective. What about having a risk, recovery time. If you post, you can have karma at risk, if it gets a few negative responses, it can recover, but if it gets 3 or more, the karma is lost. We can all know what it means to give 3 strikes, so it only takes 3 of us to call it spam, while the post is risking karma for each link. I feel like this has a lot in common with learning systems in how neurons sum signals and vote an outcome.