It currently gives fixed-size karma bonuses or penalties. I think we should likely change it to be multipliers instead, but either should get the basic job done.
I can see the logic of multipliers, but in the edge case of posts with zero or negative karma they do weird stuff. If you set big mulitpliers for 5 topics, and there is a −1 karma post that ticks every single one of those topics, then you will never see it. But you of all people are the one who should see that post, which the addition achieves.
I would expect that if someone wants to only see AI alignment post (a wish someone mentioned) saying +1000 karma would provide that result but also mess up the sorting as the karma differences become less.
A modifier of 100x should allow a user to actually only see one tag.
It currently gives fixed-size karma bonuses or penalties. I think we should likely change it to be multipliers instead, but either should get the basic job done.
I can see the logic of multipliers, but in the edge case of posts with zero or negative karma they do weird stuff. If you set big mulitpliers for 5 topics, and there is a −1 karma post that ticks every single one of those topics, then you will never see it. But you of all people are the one who should see that post, which the addition achieves.
(Not significant really though.)
You could just not have the multipliers apply to negative karma posts.
I would expect that if someone wants to only see AI alignment post (a wish someone mentioned) saying +1000 karma would provide that result but also mess up the sorting as the karma differences become less.
A modifier of 100x should allow a user to actually only see one tag.