Actually, I misspoke. The reason is not mine, but a perception I’ve gathered from the community. I presume the reason is to restore some sort of feeling of justice, as the sequences have not been upvoted to the level that other posts have (being pre-karma themselves) even though they are more influential.
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As far as I am concerned, I think the sequences should have been exempt from the Karma system. It makes no sense to start a community and seed it with 2 years worth of posts which can be used to collect karma. It renders the karma system and the ‘Top Contributors’ list in particular meaningless. My scraper says that the sequences have gotten 7585 votes, accounting for 75850 karma points, more than the difference between Eliezer and Yvain (and that’s without counting upvotes on sequences-era comments).
I don’t expect others to agree with me, and having maximum consensus about the sequence reruns is more important to me than trying to rectify my pet peeves about lw, especially this one that will no doubt be an intra-lesswrong mindkiller. So I have just gone with the [perceived] majority on this.
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If you would like to set up a poll to see what everyone really thinks about this, that’d be great.
Come to think of it, a reason that would get me to support linking to the original would be that this can help produce community-authored summaries for the discussion posts, which will be a lasting contribution of the sequence reruns. But posting whole-text and producing summaries may not be incompatible if done right.
Actually, I misspoke. The reason is not mine, but a perception I’ve gathered from the community. I presume the reason is to restore some sort of feeling of justice, as the sequences have not been upvoted to the level that other posts have (being pre-karma themselves) even though they are more influential.
[rant]
As far as I am concerned, I think the sequences should have been exempt from the Karma system. It makes no sense to start a community and seed it with 2 years worth of posts which can be used to collect karma. It renders the karma system and the ‘Top Contributors’ list in particular meaningless. My scraper says that the sequences have gotten 7585 votes, accounting for 75850 karma points, more than the difference between Eliezer and Yvain (and that’s without counting upvotes on sequences-era comments).
I don’t expect others to agree with me, and having maximum consensus about the sequence reruns is more important to me than trying to rectify my pet peeves about lw, especially this one that will no doubt be an intra-lesswrong mindkiller. So I have just gone with the [perceived] majority on this.
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If you would like to set up a poll to see what everyone really thinks about this, that’d be great.
Come to think of it, a reason that would get me to support linking to the original would be that this can help produce community-authored summaries for the discussion posts, which will be a lasting contribution of the sequence reruns. But posting whole-text and producing summaries may not be incompatible if done right.
I think the point about getting summaries written is a good one, provided they’re of a high standard.
Personally I’d agree with your rant, but it doesn’t seem to be a point of too much importance either way really.