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I like the idea of upvotes and downvotes being multiplied by your avg score. tptacek's votes would be worth 8.85 at the moment, bermanoid's 3.5, and mine 2.92.

• epochwolf 15y ago
  Wouldn't you want newbies at 0.01 (or some other value below 1) until they have a reliable score?
• ignifero 15y ago
  That would be a violation of the democratic principle behind social news and would incentivize people to game their scores. Members have different interests and expertise, so having a high avg score doesn't mean they are experts in everything (Abuse of power - OMG this is getting more intricate than i thought)
  • jbooth 15y ago
    You could take the log of any score > 1 to reduce the incentive to game the system.. that way someone who relentlessly karma whores won't have that much more influence than a mildly uprated commenter, but both will have more influence than a noob.
    • ignifero 15y ago
      but then a mob of noobs could outrank two wise elders.
      • bermanoid 15y ago
        Well, with the situation we're in now, only three noobs (or one noob with three accounts) can outrank two wise elders. As to your gp comment, yes, incentivizing karma gains could be a problem, but that's the tradeoff that's got to be considered. I'm not sure what the best tradeoff is; personally, I'd probably go with something like Pagerank for a while and see if the comment quality (above the fold, at least) improves, but perhaps pg has a desire to keep things more neutral and fair, I'm not sure.