That’s just considering the effects of you having the awesome exponential downvote power. Would LW look much different if everyone had it?
It seems to me that the current system works pretty well. In general, posts at −2 aren’t worth reading, and there isn’t much drama associated with downvoting.
I think so. Consider a controversial post that three people really love and three people really hate. It would be at 0 without the exponential downvote power, but very negative with it. The effect would be to make LW blander by silencing posts that offend a small number of people.
Consider a controversial post that three people really love and three people really hate. It would be at 0 without the exponential downvote power, but very negative with it. The effect would be to make LW blander by silencing posts that offend a small number of people.
A good point. Any system in which increasingly costly downvotes were allowed would have to allow an analogous system for giving extra upvotes at a price too.
It would be at 0 without the exponential downvote power,
That phrasing makes it sound like the downvotes are increasing exponentially with cost, not the reverse.
Consider a controversial post that three people really love and three people really hate. It would be at 0 without the exponential downvote power, but very negative with it. The effect would be to make LW blander by silencing posts that offend a small number of people.
A good point. Any system in which increasingly costly downvotes were allowed would have to allow an analogous system for giving extra upvotes at a price too.
It would be at 0 without the exponential downvote power,
That phrasing makes it sound like the downvotes are increasing exponentially with cost, not the reverse.
That’s just considering the effects of you having the awesome exponential downvote power. Would LW look much different if everyone had it?
I was considering the general case. It is definitely hard to predict what the outcome would be. My hunch—once people adapted it would barely make any difference.
That’s just considering the effects of you having the awesome exponential downvote power. Would LW look much different if everyone had it?
I was considering the general case. It is definitely hard to predict what the outcome would be. My hunch—once people adapted it would barely make any difference.
That’s just considering the effects of you having the awesome exponential downvote power. Would LW look much different if everyone had it?
It seems to me that the current system works pretty well. In general, posts at −2 aren’t worth reading, and there isn’t much drama associated with downvoting.
I think so. Consider a controversial post that three people really love and three people really hate. It would be at 0 without the exponential downvote power, but very negative with it. The effect would be to make LW blander by silencing posts that offend a small number of people.
A good point. Any system in which increasingly costly downvotes were allowed would have to allow an analogous system for giving extra upvotes at a price too.
That phrasing makes it sound like the downvotes are increasing exponentially with cost, not the reverse.
I guess we should call it a logarithmic downvote power, then.
A good point. Any system in which increasingly costly downvotes were allowed would have to allow an analogous system for giving extra upvotes at a price too.
That phrasing makes it sound like the downvotes are increasing exponentially with cost, not the reverse.
I was considering the general case. It is definitely hard to predict what the outcome would be. My hunch—once people adapted it would barely make any difference.
I was considering the general case. It is definitely hard to predict what the outcome would be. My hunch—once people adapted it would barely make any difference.