I would suggest that it makes no sense to reward getting the right answer without documenting the process you used, because then nobody benefits from your discovery that this process leads (in at least that one case) to the right answer.
Similarly, I don’t see the benefit of punishing someone for getting the wrong answer while sincerely trying to follow the right process. Perhaps a neutral response is appropriate, but we are still seeing a benefit from such failed attempts: we learn how the process can be misunderstood (because if the process is right, and followed correctly, then by definition it will arrive at the right answer), and thus how we need to refine the process (e.g. by re-wording its instructions) to prevent such errors.
Perhaps “Rationality is the art of winning the truth.”?
Actually, I really don’t like the connotations of the word “winning” (it reminds me too much of “arguments are soldiers”); I’d much rather say something like “Rationality is the art of gradually teasing the truth from the jaws of chaos.” Karma points should reflect whether the commenter has pulled out more truth—including truth about flaws in our teasing-process—or (the opposite) has helped feed the chaos-beast.
I would suggest that it makes no sense to reward getting the right answer without documenting the process you used, because then nobody benefits from your discovery that this process leads (in at least that one case) to the right answer.
Similarly, I don’t see the benefit of punishing someone for getting the wrong answer while sincerely trying to follow the right process. Perhaps a neutral response is appropriate, but we are still seeing a benefit from such failed attempts: we learn how the process can be misunderstood (because if the process is right, and followed correctly, then by definition it will arrive at the right answer), and thus how we need to refine the process (e.g. by re-wording its instructions) to prevent such errors.
Perhaps “Rationality is the art of winning the truth.”?
Actually, I really don’t like the connotations of the word “winning” (it reminds me too much of “arguments are soldiers”); I’d much rather say something like “Rationality is the art of gradually teasing the truth from the jaws of chaos.” Karma points should reflect whether the commenter has pulled out more truth—including truth about flaws in our teasing-process—or (the opposite) has helped feed the chaos-beast.