is there any explanation of the current Karma System? The main thing I can find is this. (you need to scroll to ‘The karma system’, for some reason you can click on subsections to go to them, but you can’t link to them).
Also why do I see a massive message that says ‘habryka’s commenting guidelines’ when I am writing this comment, but there are no guidelines or link? Is this just a weird extra ad for your own name?
The commenting guidelines allows users to set their own norms of communication for their own private posts. This lets us experiment with different norms to see which work better, and also allows the LessWrong community to diversify into different subcommunities should there be interest. It says habryka’s guidelines because that’s who posted this post; if you go back through the other open threads, you will see other people posted many of them, and different commenting guidelines here and there. I think the posts that speak to this the most are:
is there any explanation of the current Karma System? The main thing I can find is this. (you need to scroll to ‘The karma system’, for some reason you can click on subsections to go to them, but you can’t link to them).
Also why do I see a massive message that says ‘habryka’s commenting guidelines’ when I am writing this comment, but there are no guidelines or link? Is this just a weird extra ad for your own name?
The commenting guidelines allows users to set their own norms of communication for their own private posts. This lets us experiment with different norms to see which work better, and also allows the LessWrong community to diversify into different subcommunities should there be interest. It says habryka’s guidelines because that’s who posted this post; if you go back through the other open threads, you will see other people posted many of them, and different commenting guidelines here and there. I think the posts that speak to this the most are:
[Meta] New moderation tools and moderation guidelines (by habryka)
Meta-tations on Moderation: Towards Public Archipelago (by Raemon)
Yeah, my current commenting guidelines are empty. Other users have non-empty commenting guideliens.
The FAQ covers almost all the site-functionality, including karma. Here is the relevant section:
https://www.lesswrong.com/faq#Karma___Voting
You can also link to subsections, if you just right-click on the relevant section in the ToC and select “Copy Link Address”.