That would penalize threads that were so interesting that you would want to read the comments there multiple times, and even revisit them in the future.
Generally it’d be a bad metric if it encouraged you not to revisit the threads you liked because you didn’t want to lower their score.
The site already (approximately) tracks which users have seen which comments, so it’s probably feasible to track the number of users who have seen a particular comment.
I really don’t want the thought in my head, as I browse lesswrong, that my reloading a page is going to affect something. Or choosing to read a thread and then not bothering to comment or upvote.
This is a bit complicated, because LW does not currently track how far down the page people scroll, or how quickly they do so, so there would be a new set of weird incentives around posting in places where readers read the comments more thoroughly.
Karma divided by page views would be a better metric.
That would penalize threads that were so interesting that you would want to read the comments there multiple times, and even revisit them in the future.
Generally it’d be a bad metric if it encouraged you not to revisit the threads you liked because you didn’t want to lower their score.
Is it not possible to track unique visitors?
The site already (approximately) tracks which users have seen which comments, so it’s probably feasible to track the number of users who have seen a particular comment.
I really don’t want the thought in my head, as I browse lesswrong, that my reloading a page is going to affect something. Or choosing to read a thread and then not bothering to comment or upvote.
This is a bit complicated, because LW does not currently track how far down the page people scroll, or how quickly they do so, so there would be a new set of weird incentives around posting in places where readers read the comments more thoroughly.