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A lot of what makes 4chan work is the lack of karma. There's no way to keep score on who said something popular or unpopular in the past, so each post or comme

by fader 16y ago

A lot of what makes 4chan work is the lack of karma. There's no way to keep score on who said something popular or unpopular in the past, so each post or comment is necessarily evaluated on its own terms. I don't see a way to add karma to that without destroying that flatness.

adrianwaj 16y ago
"each post or comment is necessarily evaluated on its own terms" there is some extra overhead in doing that, and makes the user experience discontiguous for posters and readers. Maybe it'd work whereby instead of just randomizing usernames, you'd just give the karma score of that user, (or rather their average comment score, or average comment score per day.) I am definitely interested in going to a more anonymous forum, but which still has in-built controls against trolling. Given the age of this forum and my time on it, I want to start fresh with a new username (or username system) for some reason, but feel this is not the place to do it, and neither is 4Chan. So the karma score on a comment would look like: +/-xx | +/-xx.x | xx.x comment score / avg comment score per day at time of posting / hours ago since comment posted capped at 24: items shut down after 24 hours. You'd see if a person has excelled themselves in any one of their comments -- or it may be a troll comment from a smart user, which can also be funny or interesting. So when a comment is first posted, you look at the second number to see it's worth reading, after a while you can look at the first (or the second, or, one's own evaluation of the differences between the first two, or the three.) There'd be no username tied with a comment, but you could see an extensive comment history privately, and you'd get a self-replying randomized daily email address that you give to someone if they want to see your metrics. Or instead, each comment has a <a href="randomnumber">user</a> link to show the profile page without (or without, not sure) comments, and has a customizable field.

by fader 16y ago

adrianwaj 16y ago

"each post or comment is necessarily evaluated on its own terms" there is some extra overhead in doing that, and makes the user experience discontiguous for posters and readers. Maybe it'd work whereby instead of just randomizing usernames, you'd just give the karma score of that user, (or rather their average comment score, or average comment score per day.) I am definitely interested in going to a more anonymous forum, but which still has in-built controls against trolling. Given the age of this forum and my time on it, I want to start fresh with a new username (or username system) for some reason, but feel this is not the place to do it, and neither is 4Chan. So the karma score on a comment would look like: +/-xx | +/-xx.x | xx.x comment score / avg comment score per day at time of posting / hours ago since comment posted capped at 24: items shut down after 24 hours. You'd see if a person has excelled themselves in any one of their comments -- or it may be a troll comment from a smart user, which can also be funny or interesting. So when a comment is first posted, you look at the second number to see it's worth reading, after a while you can look at the first (or the second, or, one's own evaluation of the differences between the first two, or the three.) There'd be no username tied with a comment, but you could see an extensive comment history privately, and you'd get a self-replying randomized daily email address that you give to someone if they want to see your metrics. Or instead, each comment has a <a href="randomnumber">user</a> link to show the profile page without (or without, not sure) comments, and has a customizable field.