My current interpretation is that you mean that people who write a lot of content generally get much more karma than people who write little but very good content.
I agree with that, and have been thinking about good ways of dealing with that. Here are two approaches:
When deciding what to show the user, use an algorithm that combines the information of: 1) How many upvotes did this piece of content get? 2) How many users have seen this piece of content? 3) How many downvotes did this piece of content get
Allow users to give out variable Karma rewards, with some cost attached to them. Maybe Karma transfers, or some limited amount of currency that’s generated based on your current karma. Top comments would then receive more of this limited amount of currency.
We could have some scarce resource based on karma. Not paying with karma directly, because I guess losing karma would feel bad, but rather that with each 100 karma points you get 1 “credit”.
You could then spend those credits e.g. on visually highlighting other people’s comments and articles. Something like when Reddit displays that a comment got “Reddit gold”. It could even transfer some karma (but much less than it costs) to the rewarded user, but mostly it would be a costly signal of “I really liked this”, with the name of person giving the reward displayed as a tooltip. A costly version of “+1 nice”, essentially.
My current interpretation is that you mean that people who write a lot of content generally get much more karma than people who write little but very good content.
I agree with that, and have been thinking about good ways of dealing with that. Here are two approaches:
When deciding what to show the user, use an algorithm that combines the information of: 1) How many upvotes did this piece of content get? 2) How many users have seen this piece of content? 3) How many downvotes did this piece of content get
Allow users to give out variable Karma rewards, with some cost attached to them. Maybe Karma transfers, or some limited amount of currency that’s generated based on your current karma. Top comments would then receive more of this limited amount of currency.
We could have some scarce resource based on karma. Not paying with karma directly, because I guess losing karma would feel bad, but rather that with each 100 karma points you get 1 “credit”.
You could then spend those credits e.g. on visually highlighting other people’s comments and articles. Something like when Reddit displays that a comment got “Reddit gold”. It could even transfer some karma (but much less than it costs) to the rewarded user, but mostly it would be a costly signal of “I really liked this”, with the name of person giving the reward displayed as a tooltip. A costly version of “+1 nice”, essentially.