Karma inflation due to more users means old articles aren’t as up voted as they should. Also because they are old they don’t get read or updated as much as they should. We tried to at least correct people not reading the sequence with reruns. It didn’t exactly work.
Idea:
Currently karma earned from posting a Main article is boosted by a factor of 10. Lets boost the value of karma by a factor of 2 or some other low value for any new comments on articles older than 2 years.
We tried to at least correct people not reading the sequence with reruns. It didn’t exactly work.
I also didn’t like how they fragmented the commentary. Many found that a feature rather than a bug. I found it plain annoying when reading an old article I had to do a search to see if there was any recent discussion in the rerun threads too.
I mean surely eventually some of the things we wrote back in 2007 or 2009 will turn out to have been plain wrong, obsolete or incomplete right? It would be neat to see that noted at least in their comment section.
Many people read through the sequences much like they would a textbook. We practically encourage them to do so. New well written comments to old article might be very useful.
Problem:
Karma inflation due to more users means old articles aren’t as up voted as they should. Also because they are old they don’t get read or updated as much as they should. We tried to at least correct people not reading the sequence with reruns. It didn’t exactly work.
Idea:
Currently karma earned from posting a Main article is boosted by a factor of 10. Lets boost the value of karma by a factor of 2 or some other low value for any new comments on articles older than 2 years.
I also didn’t like how they fragmented the commentary. Many found that a feature rather than a bug. I found it plain annoying when reading an old article I had to do a search to see if there was any recent discussion in the rerun threads too.
I mean surely eventually some of the things we wrote back in 2007 or 2009 will turn out to have been plain wrong, obsolete or incomplete right? It would be neat to see that noted at least in their comment section.
Many people read through the sequences much like they would a textbook. We practically encourage them to do so. New well written comments to old article might be very useful.
I liked this idea until I realized I only liked it because I’ve been around longer than lukeprog.