To my mind the primary features of this system that bear on Duncan’s top-level post are:
High-reputation judges can confidently set the quality signal for a piece of writing, even if they’re in the minority. The truth is not a popularity contest, even when it comes to quality.
The emphasis on betting means that people who “upvote” low-quality posts or “downvote” high-quality ones are punished, making “this made me feel things, and so I’m going to bandwagon” a dangerous mental move. And people who make this sort of move would be efficiently sidelined.
In concert, I expect that it would be much easier to bring concentrated force down on low-quality bits of writing. Which would, in turn, I think make the quality price/signal a much more meaningful piece of information, instead of the current karma score which is as others noted, is overloaded as a measure.
Nice. Thank you. How would you feel about me writing a top-level post reconsidering alternative systems and brainstorming/discussing solutions to the problems you raised?
Seems great! It’s a bit on ice this week, but we’ve been thinking very actively about changes to the voting system, and so right now is the right time to strike the iron if you want to change the teams opinion on how we should change things, and what we should experiment with.
To my mind the primary features of this system that bear on Duncan’s top-level post are:
High-reputation judges can confidently set the quality signal for a piece of writing, even if they’re in the minority. The truth is not a popularity contest, even when it comes to quality.
The emphasis on betting means that people who “upvote” low-quality posts or “downvote” high-quality ones are punished, making “this made me feel things, and so I’m going to bandwagon” a dangerous mental move. And people who make this sort of move would be efficiently sidelined.
In concert, I expect that it would be much easier to bring concentrated force down on low-quality bits of writing. Which would, in turn, I think make the quality price/signal a much more meaningful piece of information, instead of the current karma score which is as others noted, is overloaded as a measure.
I like this idea. It has a lot of nice attributes.
I wrote some in the past about what all the different things are that a voting/karma system on LW is trying to produce, with some thoughts on some proposals that feel a bit similar to this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EQJfdqSaMcJyR5k73/habryka-s-shortform-feed?commentId=8meuqgifXhksp42sg
Nice. Thank you. How would you feel about me writing a top-level post reconsidering alternative systems and brainstorming/discussing solutions to the problems you raised?
Seems great! It’s a bit on ice this week, but we’ve been thinking very actively about changes to the voting system, and so right now is the right time to strike the iron if you want to change the teams opinion on how we should change things, and what we should experiment with.