If all your comments are downvoted because someone deemed that 20% of them are damaging, it’s much more difficult to deduce why that happened than if voting happens per comment.
Yes, that’s true.
If you take into account how lazy people are explaining themselves, it might still be a pretty good mechanism for that purpose, certainly better than nothing.
I certainly agree that karma is better than nothing, and I suppose it’s possible that it represents an optimal means for getting information from people too lazy to provide information by other means.
Yes, that’s true.
I certainly agree that karma is better than nothing, and I suppose it’s possible that it represents an optimal means for getting information from people too lazy to provide information by other means.