Current proposal @ http://code.google.com/p/lesswrong/issues/detail?id=144 calls for switching to a zero-based system with no self-upvotes or downvotes, and showing ratios of upvotes to downvotes (so making comments in old threads, that won’t be much upvoted or downvoted, won’t count against your “average” quality).
I’m beginning to think we may also want to go ahead and switch to that brilliant suggestion for distinguishing the quality upvote/downvote, and the agreement upvote/downvote.
However, all this requires programming work and isn’t the top priority right now. An experienced Python programmer willing to volunteer a noticeable block of time would probably get around to it a lot sooner.
I don’t know about ratios, but I’d like to see the total upvotes and downvotes on a comment. It would be very useful to know if I got 5 upvotes and 5 downvotes or if the comment just sat there getting nothing.
I may not understand this proposal, but… I think the current system of comments starting at +1 is good because people react badly to negative numbers and zero. That self-vote counting for total karma is bad, but that is easily fixed by subtracting 1 before computing total karma.
I don’t see any reason why karma couldn’t be calculated based on votes, disallowing self votes, but the default comment score be something other than 0.
Current proposal @ http://code.google.com/p/lesswrong/issues/detail?id=144 calls for switching to a zero-based system with no self-upvotes or downvotes, and showing ratios of upvotes to downvotes (so making comments in old threads, that won’t be much upvoted or downvoted, won’t count against your “average” quality).
I’m beginning to think we may also want to go ahead and switch to that brilliant suggestion for distinguishing the quality upvote/downvote, and the agreement upvote/downvote.
However, all this requires programming work and isn’t the top priority right now. An experienced Python programmer willing to volunteer a noticeable block of time would probably get around to it a lot sooner.
I don’t know about ratios, but I’d like to see the total upvotes and downvotes on a comment. It would be very useful to know if I got 5 upvotes and 5 downvotes or if the comment just sat there getting nothing.
I may not understand this proposal, but… I think the current system of comments starting at +1 is good because people react badly to negative numbers and zero. That self-vote counting for total karma is bad, but that is easily fixed by subtracting 1 before computing total karma.
I don’t see any reason why karma couldn’t be calculated based on votes, disallowing self votes, but the default comment score be something other than 0.