The karma system is not really the problem; tweaking it won’t fix the underlying trust dynamics (the thing Raemon was talking about re: high, medium, and low trust).
On Facebook, the people who comment on my statuses are typically my friends, or at least acquaintances. We’ve met in real life, we know and like each other, we’re all using our real names, etc. It feels like we’re on the same team and so it’s easy for us to be helpful and supportive of each other while commenting.
Here many people are using pseudonyms, I don’t know who they are, we’ve never met, we’re not friends, we plausibly wouldn’t like each other even if we met, etc. It’s easy for us to relate to each other in a more adversarial way, because it doesn’t feel like we’re on the same team.
The karma system is not really the problem; tweaking it won’t fix the underlying trust dynamics (the thing Raemon was talking about re: high, medium, and low trust).
On Facebook, the people who comment on my statuses are typically my friends, or at least acquaintances. We’ve met in real life, we know and like each other, we’re all using our real names, etc. It feels like we’re on the same team and so it’s easy for us to be helpful and supportive of each other while commenting.
Here many people are using pseudonyms, I don’t know who they are, we’ve never met, we’re not friends, we plausibly wouldn’t like each other even if we met, etc. It’s easy for us to relate to each other in a more adversarial way, because it doesn’t feel like we’re on the same team.