Complaining about getting rate-limited made me no longer rate-limited, so I guess it’s a self-correcting system...???
two groups I want to distinguish between
I agree that some tradeoff here is inevitable.
think more and find third-options that avoid false positives while catching true positives
I think that’s possible.
I don’t think the recent comment window was well-designed. If you’re going to use a window, IMO a vote-count window would be better, eg: look backwards until you hit 400 cumulative karma votes, with some exponential downweighting.
I also think the strong votes are weighted too heavily. Holding a button a little longer doesn’t mean somebody’s opinion should be counted as 6+ times as important, IMO. Maybe normal votes should be weighted at 1⁄2 whatever a strong vote is worth.
when you downvote someone, an additional UI element pops up
I don’t think that’s a good idea.
It’s a problem because we also have cranks who make technical-looking-points who are in fact confused, and I think the cost of having a bunch of them around drives away people
If you find a solution, maybe let some universities know about it...or some CEOs...or some politicians...
People won’t generally go through the history of the user in question; they won’t have the context needed to distinguish the cases you’re asking them to.
Complaining about getting rate-limited made me no longer rate-limited, so I guess it’s a self-correcting system...???
I agree that some tradeoff here is inevitable.
I think that’s possible.
I don’t think the recent comment window was well-designed. If you’re going to use a window, IMO a vote-count window would be better, eg: look backwards until you hit 400 cumulative karma votes, with some exponential downweighting.
I also think the strong votes are weighted too heavily. Holding a button a little longer doesn’t mean somebody’s opinion should be counted as 6+ times as important, IMO. Maybe normal votes should be weighted at 1⁄2 whatever a strong vote is worth.
I don’t think that’s a good idea.
If you find a solution, maybe let some universities know about it...or some CEOs...or some politicians...
Why? (I’m not very attached to the idea, but, what are you imagining going wrong?)
It seems annoying.
I don’t think people will use it objectively.
People won’t generally go through the history of the user in question; they won’t have the context needed to distinguish the cases you’re asking them to.