Keep 30-day karma and ditch cumulative karma.
So people who don’t post on LW for a month or more become indistinguishable from newbies?
What happens if old karma is only displayed as a percentage, rather than as a number? That way you know generally what the community thinks of their post quality, without more-prolific posters overwhelming less frequent posters?
I am still not quite sure what is the problem we are trying to solve here.
What exactly do you hope to gain by screwing around with the karma system?
So people who don’t post on LW for a month or more become indistinguishable from newbies?
What happens if old karma is only displayed as a percentage, rather than as a number? That way you know generally what the community thinks of their post quality, without more-prolific posters overwhelming less frequent posters?
I am still not quite sure what is the problem we are trying to solve here.
What exactly do you hope to gain by screwing around with the karma system?