JGWeissman writes, “I don’t see what you gain by this strategy that justifies the decrease in correlation between a comments displayed karma score and the value the community assigns it that occurs when you down vote a comment not because it is a problem, but because the author had written other comments that are a problem.”
Vladimir Nesov writes, “If you are downvoting indiscriminately, not separating the better comments from the worse ones, without even bothering to understand them, you are abusing the system.”
Anna writes, “This has the following advantages over blanket user-downvoting: . . . It does not impair quality-indicators on the user’s other comments”
The objection is valid. I retract my proposal and will say so in an addendum to my original comment.
The problem with my proposal is the part where the voter goes to a commenter’s lesswrong.com/user/ page and votes down 20 or 30 or so comments in a row. That dilutes or cancels out useful information, namely, votes from those who used the system the way it was intended.
If there were a way for a voter to reduce the karma of a person without reducing the point-score of any substantive comment, then my proposal might still have value, but without that, my proposal will have a destructive effect on the community, so of course I withdraw my proposal.
JGWeissman writes, “I don’t see what you gain by this strategy that justifies the decrease in correlation between a comments displayed karma score and the value the community assigns it that occurs when you down vote a comment not because it is a problem, but because the author had written other comments that are a problem.”
Vladimir Nesov writes, “If you are downvoting indiscriminately, not separating the better comments from the worse ones, without even bothering to understand them, you are abusing the system.”
Anna writes, “This has the following advantages over blanket user-downvoting: . . . It does not impair quality-indicators on the user’s other comments”
The objection is valid. I retract my proposal and will say so in an addendum to my original comment.
The problem with my proposal is the part where the voter goes to a commenter’s lesswrong.com/user/ page and votes down 20 or 30 or so comments in a row. That dilutes or cancels out useful information, namely, votes from those who used the system the way it was intended.
If there were a way for a voter to reduce the karma of a person without reducing the point-score of any substantive comment, then my proposal might still have value, but without that, my proposal will have a destructive effect on the community, so of course I withdraw my proposal.