I’m thinking, but not sure, whether watching average karma would be a good idea.
Or maybe some curve that would transform article karma, something like articles with positive karma would get “karma − 10” points, and articles with zero or negative karma would get constant “-10″ points, and measuring a sum of that. (The rationale is that we subtract a few points as a cost of time spent reading; but we don’t penalize the negative-karma articles too much, because skipping an article with −100 karma is just as easy as skipping an article with −5 karma.)
when was the last time you skipped an article, comment or post because it was negative? (not that you are a typical user) (and maybe this is worthy of a poll in the OT)
This seems reasonable in general, aside from that minor quibble.
As one anecdata point, I do generally skip articles with much negative karma. I read via RSS, so I just hit ‘mark read’ on them. LW users are not big downvoters, most of the time, so if something has more than a few downvotes, I have found that I probably don’t want to read it.
And of course, comments with a score of −3 are hidden by default, so many people probably don’t read them.
I’m thinking, but not sure, whether watching average karma would be a good idea.
Or maybe some curve that would transform article karma, something like articles with positive karma would get “karma − 10” points, and articles with zero or negative karma would get constant “-10″ points, and measuring a sum of that. (The rationale is that we subtract a few points as a cost of time spent reading; but we don’t penalize the negative-karma articles too much, because skipping an article with −100 karma is just as easy as skipping an article with −5 karma.)
when was the last time you skipped an article, comment or post because it was negative? (not that you are a typical user) (and maybe this is worthy of a poll in the OT)
This seems reasonable in general, aside from that minor quibble.
As one anecdata point, I do generally skip articles with much negative karma. I read via RSS, so I just hit ‘mark read’ on them. LW users are not big downvoters, most of the time, so if something has more than a few downvotes, I have found that I probably don’t want to read it.
And of course, comments with a score of −3 are hidden by default, so many people probably don’t read them.