I believe Eigenkarma to be a great feature because it’s as simple for the user as our existing system and allows better weighting of votes at the same time.
Eigenkarma would also make limits of participation by karma for commenting on specific threads a better filter.
It doesn’t strike me as simple in terms of conceptual load. The user would no longer see a direct, reliable increase in the karma of a post as a result of them upvoting/downvoting it, which actually strikes me as pretty problematic. I.e. in eigenkarma the more outgoing votes you have, the less powerful each marginal vote becomes, and so you would see a decline in the weight of your votes everytime you vote on something, which is much less predictable than just knowing that your vote-weight is “4” or something like that.
I believe Eigenkarma to be a great feature because it’s as simple for the user as our existing system and allows better weighting of votes at the same time.
Eigenkarma would also make limits of participation by karma for commenting on specific threads a better filter.
It doesn’t strike me as simple in terms of conceptual load. The user would no longer see a direct, reliable increase in the karma of a post as a result of them upvoting/downvoting it, which actually strikes me as pretty problematic. I.e. in eigenkarma the more outgoing votes you have, the less powerful each marginal vote becomes, and so you would see a decline in the weight of your votes everytime you vote on something, which is much less predictable than just knowing that your vote-weight is “4” or something like that.