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Yes, you're right. I was thinking the same thing this afternoon as I was driving around. However, one problem that continues to present itself is the cumula
by Jd 19y ago
Yes, you're right. I was thinking the same thing this afternoon as I was driving around.
However, one problem that continues to present itself is the cumulative nature of karma accretion. Only if there is a completely separate scaling mechanism which determines vote weight independent of karma could be this avoided.
Otherwise even if an upmodder gets less for voting up PG (or Nostra) stories, they still get something.
- palish 19y agoThat isn't necessarily a bad thing, though. It means they're participating in YC news. Besides, I bet the vote weight curve isn't linear.. It's probably logarithmic, so you'll see diminishing returns. The real question to ask is, "Why would people want a large vote weight?" The only malicious reason is to get something meaningless to the frontpage really quickly. But that will still render them powerless immediately if it's flagged as nonsense. Besides, at least one other person will still have to agree with you to get it to the front page. This sort of guard is to prevent your votes from getting things to the front page if you upvote nonsense.