There is no automatic voting routine. But all comments start with a single small-upvote by their author, and posts start with a single strong-upvote by their author.
You mean using the author’s karma for the initial vote? Interesting if so. (And better than the alternative where a zero karma spambot gets as much visibility right away as a well respected poster)
The circle jerk problem is unfortunate. I have noticed on Reddit that a huge part of voting behavior is you eat many downvotes for expressing a position that disagrees with the subreddit consensus. Regardless of correctness.
Yep, the author’s vote-strength is used for the initial vote. So comments by users with more karma can start out with 2 points, as opposed to the default 1, and posts by users with more karma can start with up to 10 points.
Sometimes Eliezer’s posts are amazing, sometimes they are only OK. Saturating the karma system would get rid of the distinction between those, and also break any sorting we might want to do on the frontpage based on karma.
There is no automatic voting routine. But all comments start with a single small-upvote by their author, and posts start with a single strong-upvote by their author.
You mean using the author’s karma for the initial vote? Interesting if so. (And better than the alternative where a zero karma spambot gets as much visibility right away as a well respected poster)
The circle jerk problem is unfortunate. I have noticed on Reddit that a huge part of voting behavior is you eat many downvotes for expressing a position that disagrees with the subreddit consensus. Regardless of correctness.
Yep, the author’s vote-strength is used for the initial vote. So comments by users with more karma can start out with 2 points, as opposed to the default 1, and posts by users with more karma can start with up to 10 points.
Neat. Why stop there? Why not start an EY post at thousands of points?
Sometimes Eliezer’s posts are amazing, sometimes they are only OK. Saturating the karma system would get rid of the distinction between those, and also break any sorting we might want to do on the frontpage based on karma.