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Hmm, can you elaborate?
by akkartik 16y ago
Hmm, can you elaborate?
- tptacek 16y agoThe parent to your comment, my original comment, is currently scored at 1. I would like to push a button to make 1 the ceiling score for that comment. I would actually like a button to make 1 the ceiling score for all my comments, too.
- akkartik 16y agoBut how would this help improve comments? Wouldn't the worst-behaved also be the least likely to hit such a button?
- tptacek 16y agoOne reason comment threads get tendentious is when people think other people are commenting to game the thread and collect karma. The karma-ceiling flag tries to say "this is a good faith comment".
- akkartik 16y agoOk, I see. I haven't noticed that phenomenon of gaming the thread. Is it so common that this would be the best way to fix comments?
- scott_s 16y agoI would use this feature for any instance where I try to explain to a new user what kind of tone our community strives for. It would be a way to assure them that I'm explaining this to them for the good of the community, not to garner more karma.
- gnosis 16y agoSo by implication the rest of the commenters who haven't so flagged their own comments are not commenting in good faith? Why not just make 1 the ceiling karma for all comments across the board? Or, in other words, why not get rid of karma all together? I guess I'm still confused by how your proposal will solve anything. It seems pretty clear that those people who really are commenting in good faith and aren't doing so to accumulate karma won't be swayed by whatever karma they may get (positive or negative). So what does explicitly limiting the karma those good-faith commenters get achieve?
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- xentronium 16y agoAnd can you elaborate on why you would like to have that? (Except for having enough karma?)