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Great use of italics! Anyway, the reward of getting from karma 1 to karma R is greater than from R to R + hogging. If a user is past R karma and then decides t

• raganwald 18y ago
  No ideas, for the simple reason that I have a basic pessimism about trying to use carrots and sticks to create behaviour that is beneficial to a social group. "We don't teach people to be nice, we hire nice people" --Leona Helmsley (sp?) I think we can punish egregiously bad behaviour and we can moderate things, that eliminates outliers. But fundamentally our approach should be to encourage nice people to join and discourage trolls so that they leave. It is not clear to me that karma is a good mechanism for that... if there is a game, some people will play for the sheer pleasure of winning. I think the number one way to encourage nice people to use a social site responsibly is to swiftly and severly punish trolling. Nothing sends a message that you prefer signal over noise like banning noisemakers. JM2C, doesn't really do much about bots.
  • delano 18y ago
    Ya that doesn't do much about bots or trolls who enjoy being spanked.