One thing that bothers me about LW is that comments and discussion posts had their karma divided by ten (rather than some more moderate number
I’m not entirely sure what you are trying to say here. To be clear: All comments and discussion posts get one karma per vote. Posts on the main page get a times 10 multiplier. Which part of this do you object to?
Yes, I was consciously trying to frame it in the opposite way from how it’s usually framed, because I’m worried that the way it’s usually framed highlights the benefits more than the costs.
The phrasing was intentionally unusual and apparently confusing (for which I apologize), but the point was meant seriously, though I’m not confident of it. Multiplying main-page karma by 10 means the same as dividing the rest by 10, unless people care about absolute rather than relative amounts of karma.
I’m not entirely sure what you are trying to say here. To be clear: All comments and discussion posts get one karma per vote. Posts on the main page get a times 10 multiplier. Which part of this do you object to?
Yes, I was consciously trying to frame it in the opposite way from how it’s usually framed, because I’m worried that the way it’s usually framed highlights the benefits more than the costs.
I think he may have been making a joke.
The phrasing was intentionally unusual and apparently confusing (for which I apologize), but the point was meant seriously, though I’m not confident of it. Multiplying main-page karma by 10 means the same as dividing the rest by 10, unless people care about absolute rather than relative amounts of karma.
Oh, I thought it was intended to be about status-quo bias or something.