Wait, what? If non-promoted posts (if that’s what you mean by “personal blogs”—I can’t find any other way to separate a post) have very different expectations and standards, why is the voting and karma identical and additive between personal blogs and the main site? Political hotbutton topics are difficult or impossible to discuss on LW.
I totally support the personal blogs being more lightly moderated, so things that push boundaries or even cross a line may not be noticed as quickly or at all. I expect to be downvoted massively if I post an unpopular political topic, regardless of whether I check “may promote” or not. It used to be I’d expect the same even for a popular political position, but looking at some recent vote totals for posts, I may be wrong on that.
why is the voting and karma identical and additive between personal blogs and the main site?
This is mostly for technical reasons, which we haven’t invested in fixing because the discussion of hot-button political issues hasn’t really been a problem for the last year in a way that would make me highly concerned about the overlapping vote systems.
I don’t know precisely yet what the best voting system would look like to account for this, but the two obvious options would be to either completely deactivate karma accumulation for non-frontpage posts and comments (which feels a bit bad to me, but might be fine, and was our initial plan), or to add a special flag that we selectively add to posts that deactivates karma accumulation (which adds more judgement on our part).
Wait, what? If non-promoted posts (if that’s what you mean by “personal blogs”—I can’t find any other way to separate a post) have very different expectations and standards, why is the voting and karma identical and additive between personal blogs and the main site? Political hotbutton topics are difficult or impossible to discuss on LW.
I totally support the personal blogs being more lightly moderated, so things that push boundaries or even cross a line may not be noticed as quickly or at all. I expect to be downvoted massively if I post an unpopular political topic, regardless of whether I check “may promote” or not. It used to be I’d expect the same even for a popular political position, but looking at some recent vote totals for posts, I may be wrong on that.
This is mostly for technical reasons, which we haven’t invested in fixing because the discussion of hot-button political issues hasn’t really been a problem for the last year in a way that would make me highly concerned about the overlapping vote systems.
I don’t know precisely yet what the best voting system would look like to account for this, but the two obvious options would be to either completely deactivate karma accumulation for non-frontpage posts and comments (which feels a bit bad to me, but might be fine, and was our initial plan), or to add a special flag that we selectively add to posts that deactivates karma accumulation (which adds more judgement on our part).