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I'd say the single most significant thing pg could do for the karma system is to weight votes by the total number of votes in the story. Right now it is way ea
by radu_floricica 16y ago
I'd say the single most significant thing pg could do for the karma system is to weight votes by the total number of votes in the story.
Right now it is way easier to get karma in animate, controversial topics rather then in insightful, complex discussions.
I think I understand why he hesitates: weighting removes the simplicity of one vote - one point. But if karma is supposed to overcome blind popularity, I think it's necessary.
- sz 16y agoEasy karma fraud.
- radu_floricica 16y agoNot if weighting is below 1.0, i.e. threads with lots of comments get less karma, but sparse threads get close to 1.0.
- sz 16y agoSomething like karma per vote = #comments / #votes Okay, actually that sounds reasonable.
- sz 16y agoHah wait that's not actually what you said, which still doesn't sound reasonable. Also a better formula might be something closer to karma per vote = thread karma / total comment karma in thread
- sz 16y agoOh, and of course the average would have to be weighted by thread karma. average = total user karma / sum of thread karma over all threads commented in