Because of the way we do batching you can’t check karma changes constantly (unless you go out of your way to change your setting) because we batch karma notifications on a 24h basis by default.
True. We did very intentionally avoid putting your total karma on the frontpage anywhere as most other platforms do to avoid people getting sucked into that unintentionally, but it you can still do that on your profile.
I hope we aren’t wasting a lot of people’s time by causing them to check their profile all the time. If we do, it might be the correct choice to also only update that number every 24h.
Do our karma karma notifications disappear if you don’t check them that day? My model of Zvi suggested to me this is attention-grabbing and bad. I wonder if it’s better to let folks be notified of all days’ karma updates ’til their most recent check in, and maybe also see all historical ones ordered by date if they click on a further button, so that the info isn’t lost and doesn’t feel scarce.
Which is definitely better than it expiring, and 24h batching is better than instantaneous feedback (unless you were going to check posts individually for information already, in which case things are already quite bad). It’s not obvious to me what encouraging daily checks here is doing for discourse as opposed to being a Skinner box.
The motivation was (among other things) several people saying to us “yo, I wish LessWrong was a bit more of a skinner box because right now it’s so throughly not a skinner box that it just doesn’t make it into my habits, and I endorse it being a stronger habit than it currently is.”
Because of the way we do batching you can’t check karma changes constantly (unless you go out of your way to change your setting) because we batch karma notifications on a 24h basis by default.
I mean, you can definitely check your karma multiple times a day to see where the last two sig digits are at, which is something I sometimes do.
True. We did very intentionally avoid putting your total karma on the frontpage anywhere as most other platforms do to avoid people getting sucked into that unintentionally, but it you can still do that on your profile.
I hope we aren’t wasting a lot of people’s time by causing them to check their profile all the time. If we do, it might be the correct choice to also only update that number every 24h.
I’ve never checked my karma total on LW 2.0 to see how it’s changed.
In my case, it sure feels like I check my karma often because I often want to know what my karma is, but maybe others differ.
Do our karma karma notifications disappear if you don’t check them that day? My model of Zvi suggested to me this is attention-grabbing and bad. I wonder if it’s better to let folks be notified of all days’ karma updates ’til their most recent check in, and maybe also see all historical ones ordered by date if they click on a further button, so that the info isn’t lost and doesn’t feel scarce.
Nah, they accumulate until you click on them.
Which is definitely better than it expiring, and 24h batching is better than instantaneous feedback (unless you were going to check posts individually for information already, in which case things are already quite bad). It’s not obvious to me what encouraging daily checks here is doing for discourse as opposed to being a Skinner box.
The motivation was (among other things) several people saying to us “yo, I wish LessWrong was a bit more of a skinner box because right now it’s so throughly not a skinner box that it just doesn’t make it into my habits, and I endorse it being a stronger habit than it currently is.”
See this comment and thread.