Sure, that’s a complicated-but-likely-efficient strategy for doubling the impact of your vote.
This sort of thing always strikes me as silly, though. If what I want to do is maximize my impact on the karma scores of comments, it’s easier to just create lots of dummy accounts and vote with them.
Yes, yes, I understand that this is against the local conventions of the site, and I’m not suggesting that people do it. However, it is perhaps instructive to consider why those conventions exist, and whether the existence of those reasons has further implications in terms of what sort of behavior is desirable.
From my perspective, the whole notion of trying to maximize the impact of my vote distorts the purpose of a system intended to communicate information about collective preferences. But of course nobody is obligated to share my beliefs about the purpose of the karma system, or to value that purpose even if they do.
Sure, that’s a complicated-but-likely-efficient strategy for doubling the impact of your vote.
This sort of thing always strikes me as silly, though. If what I want to do is maximize my impact on the karma scores of comments, it’s easier to just create lots of dummy accounts and vote with them.
Yes, yes, I understand that this is against the local conventions of the site, and I’m not suggesting that people do it. However, it is perhaps instructive to consider why those conventions exist, and whether the existence of those reasons has further implications in terms of what sort of behavior is desirable.
From my perspective, the whole notion of trying to maximize the impact of my vote distorts the purpose of a system intended to communicate information about collective preferences. But of course nobody is obligated to share my beliefs about the purpose of the karma system, or to value that purpose even if they do.