Hmmm. My unease with this idea would be entirely resolved if the upvotes were cached until the user reached 1000 karma rather than merely prohibited/lost.
Consider EYs article on how we fail to co-operate; I’d like to be able to stand-up and say “yes, more of this please”. I don’t mind at all if the effect of that upvoting is delayed but if I reach 1000 karma I don’t expect to find the energy to go back over all the old threads to up vote those I liked in the past—so in that world my expression of support will be forever missing.
That said, something really is necessary—on more recent posts the comments have had such a disheartening effect that I was beginning to decide that I should only read articles.
Hmmm. My unease with this idea would be entirely resolved if the upvotes were cached until the user reached 1000 karma rather than merely prohibited/lost.
Consider EYs article on how we fail to co-operate; I’d like to be able to stand-up and say “yes, more of this please”. I don’t mind at all if the effect of that upvoting is delayed but if I reach 1000 karma I don’t expect to find the energy to go back over all the old threads to up vote those I liked in the past—so in that world my expression of support will be forever missing.
That said, something really is necessary—on more recent posts the comments have had such a disheartening effect that I was beginning to decide that I should only read articles.
The thing is your early up votes and down votes are probably different than your later ones.
My expectation is that there would be a significant degree of similarity. This may be a testable hypothesis, but we’d have to be gathering the data.
I’m all in favour of that.