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You also lose 1 reputation for down-voting which helps prevent people from getting too trigger happy
by adossi 7y ago
You also lose 1 reputation for down-voting which helps prevent people from getting too trigger happy
- Avamander 7y ago1 rep doesn't matter at all for high-rank people, the rep loss should be based on total rep.
- snazz 7y agoIt should be something like 1% of your reputation. That’s significant enough to make even high-rank users have to think.
- Swenrekcah 7y agoHigh ranking users do not like your proposal! (parent comment is gray at this time) Edit: wow I’m tired. I read this whole thread thinking of HN instead of SO. Time to go home and rest..
- golergka 7y agoAs for now at least, all operations on reputation are addition-based and therefore commutative: their order doesn't matter, and undoing an operation returns your reputation to the previous state. With this 1% rule, however, it breaks down. For example, if you downvote someone when you have 1000 reputation points, and then undo the downvote and downvote him again when you have 10,000, it means that you'll lose 9 points for nothing.
- maest 7y agoThis also makes sense as high-rank users usually have a constant stream of rep coming from their answers/questions. So, not only do high-rank users have lots of rep, they also gain rep at an accelerated pace (on average).
- umvi 7y ago"The rich keep getting richer." Same phenomenon happens everywhere.
- luckylion 7y agoIf you punish moderation, you end up with an unmoderated site. You don't want a million "help. please write this code for me. thanks" posts, as any legitimate question will be lost in the noise and nobody will waste time "answering" (aka working for free) those questions. SO works because it discourages super-low-effort questions and has a lot of moderation (both by official moderators and high-rep users).
- michaelmrose 7y agoForums require lots of downvotes to keep out the riff raff making them that precious would be a mistake.
- mcguire 7y agoOne wonders about the utility of a forum made of riff raff.
- hanniabu 7y agoInteresting, I had no idea of this
- baud147258 7y agoOnly on answers. You can downvote questions without any damage to your rep. And even then the damage is trivial.
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