My overall impression from this post: is there a point to this? Should we be concerned with people potentially gaming the karma system through polls? From what I’ve seen, the amount of karma gained through this method is too small to be significant in any way, shape or form. Anyone that concerned with trying to raise their karma without expending significant effort could get way more by being the person to create the monthly quotes thread as often as they can reasonably manage.
Not concerned about it any way. It was just curiosity on my part as to how it compares to other methods of gaining Karma in itself regardless of the practical value of such debate.
The discussion section does have quite a few threads with only idle speculation in them, it seemed to me at the time of making the the thread that it would only be visited by those with a similar interest and ignored by others.
I’m really sorry I wasted your time.
Was the title misleading? Is there a alternate formulation that you think would work better?
My overall impression from this post: is there a point to this? Should we be concerned with people potentially gaming the karma system through polls? From what I’ve seen, the amount of karma gained through this method is too small to be significant in any way, shape or form. Anyone that concerned with trying to raise their karma without expending significant effort could get way more by being the person to create the monthly quotes thread as often as they can reasonably manage.
Not concerned about it any way. It was just curiosity on my part as to how it compares to other methods of gaining Karma in itself regardless of the practical value of such debate.
The discussion section does have quite a few threads with only idle speculation in them, it seemed to me at the time of making the the thread that it would only be visited by those with a similar interest and ignored by others.
I’m really sorry I wasted your time.
Was the title misleading? Is there a alternate formulation that you think would work better?