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There should be two sets of karma, one for comments and one for submissions
by marshallp 17y ago
There should be two sets of karma, one for comments and one for submissions
- chaosmachine 17y agoIt's easy to get comment karma, as well. You just have to be the first person to post the generally prevailing opinion on whatever the current topic is. Then everyone who was coming to post the same thing will just upvote you instead.
- marshallp 17y agoThere should be third karma for indicating obviousness which also deletes some of your comment karma
- jackowayed 17y agoYeah, let's just have an infinite number of separate karmas to measure every attribute of each comment. It's not that quantifying all of these things wouldn't be great, just that you very quickly will end up with a system way too complex to be reasonable.
- marshallp 17y agoI think users of this forums, the majority of them programmers, can handle a few different karma arrows
- jackowayed 17y agoBut there's all kinds of issues. How do you display them all (especially if you exceed 2 sets of arrows)? How do you remember which one is which (again, not a huge issue if you just add one more karma type)? How much will having to sort by several karmas slow down the site?
- Xichekolas 17y agoNot to mention the obvious question... is there really a point to breaking everything down seven ways from Sunday? At that point it becomes a video game, and loses any semblance of meaning anything whatsoever.
- awa 17y agoThere should be no submission karma only comment karma, or submission karma should max out at a low figure like 10 (stories can have higher points but the user will only gain a maximum of 10 karma from a submission) .