I’d propose that THIS is the place, the “discussion” section of the site. The people who don’t like a particular post or discussion topic can just go on to the next.
I’d like to see a karma voting system that kept the positive and negative totals. For simplicity (?) the net could still be what is shown in cases where compactness and simplicity of presentation means it. But the user page and any page that shows the text of comments/posts would show the plus and minus points rather than just the net.
My idea here is, I am generally interested in the non-karma-elite discussions. But not so much the complete crank discussions. I would probably enjoy a post with +100 −100 votes more than a post that merely had +10 net, and certainly more than one that had 0 net or (+1 −1) votes.
As for what to do about displaying user’s Karma scores: I’m willing to keep my net karma as my main metric, as long as anyone checking far enough to click on my name sees that my +500 is really more like +1000 −500 (A very rough guess). The old protectors of the faith should retain something of the karma system they presumably put in place.
I’d propose that THIS is the place, the “discussion” section of the site. The people who don’t like a particular post or discussion topic can just go on to the next.
I’d like to see a karma voting system that kept the positive and negative totals. For simplicity (?) the net could still be what is shown in cases where compactness and simplicity of presentation means it. But the user page and any page that shows the text of comments/posts would show the plus and minus points rather than just the net.
My idea here is, I am generally interested in the non-karma-elite discussions. But not so much the complete crank discussions. I would probably enjoy a post with +100 −100 votes more than a post that merely had +10 net, and certainly more than one that had 0 net or (+1 −1) votes.
As for what to do about displaying user’s Karma scores: I’m willing to keep my net karma as my main metric, as long as anyone checking far enough to click on my name sees that my +500 is really more like +1000 −500 (A very rough guess). The old protectors of the faith should retain something of the karma system they presumably put in place.