I do want to stay in explore-options and gather data mode
What kind of analysis are you thinking of doing on the data that you’re gathering? I’m curious, and also pre-registration may be a good idea in situations like this to reduce bias.
I’m curious how you feel about solutions that are more in the direction of ″make karma more illegible?″ – possibly literally just randomizing +/- a few points?
Doesn’t seem like it helps as much as other possibilities and the cost seems substantial (in implementation, user education, getting used to it psychologically, maybe other unforeseen consequences).
There’s also the option of “you can upvote UP TO your max-karma, but can choose any amount”. The two reasons we didn’t go with this was that it felt like asking people to making too-granular a choice every time they voted
What kind of analysis are you thinking of doing on the data that you’re gathering? I’m curious, and also pre-registration may be a good idea in situations like this to reduce bias.
Doesn’t seem like it helps as much as other possibilities and the cost seems substantial (in implementation, user education, getting used to it psychologically, maybe other unforeseen consequences).
I agree with this.