What will happen to individuals’ karma when old votes are reweighted? The Right Thing, in some sense, is to go through vote by vote in chronological order, recalculating karma scores as it happens, and reweight each vote according to the user’s recalculated karma at that point. I don’t know whether that’s painfully expensive either in computer time or in developer time. If it is, it seems like the obvious alternatives have consistency problems...
What will happen to individuals’ karma when old votes are reweighted? The Right Thing, in some sense, is to go through vote by vote in chronological order, recalculating karma scores as it happens, and reweight each vote according to the user’s recalculated karma at that point. I don’t know whether that’s painfully expensive either in computer time or in developer time. If it is, it seems like the obvious alternatives have consistency problems...