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).
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).