What does it mean to say that a comment deserves that the result should be e.g. five?
It actually doesn’t mean anything if there’s only one comment. But the way LW works is that if there’s one comment with 5, and another with 6, the one with 6 gets displayed first and read by more people.
I think your scoring rules makes more sense in a binary “vote yes or no” democracy. If you’re trying to decide whether you should or shouldn’t enact a policy, and if there are more negative than positive votes then the policy is enacted, you should yes vote if you agree with the policy and no if you disagree.
But in a meritocratic system like LW, where individual posts are ranked against each other based on score, this results in “pretty good comments” getting ranked the same level as “really good comments”.
It actually doesn’t mean anything if there’s only one comment. But the way LW works is that if there’s one comment with 5, and another with 6, the one with 6 gets displayed first and read by more people.
I think your scoring rules makes more sense in a binary “vote yes or no” democracy. If you’re trying to decide whether you should or shouldn’t enact a policy, and if there are more negative than positive votes then the policy is enacted, you should yes vote if you agree with the policy and no if you disagree.
But in a meritocratic system like LW, where individual posts are ranked against each other based on score, this results in “pretty good comments” getting ranked the same level as “really good comments”.