Right, you have to be quick about it. But that just means I have to sacrifice 5 more karma. Obviously someone should make a bot that does this automatically. Agentic intelligence beats stupidity on the part of mechanism designers. This is a warning to all mechanism designers. I can defeat your system. Don’t be idiots, you idiots. Yay artificial intelligence. (Obviously if they create a bot that can ban bots then I can create a bot that creates more bots than they can efficiently ban. P versus NP. This would be completely and immediately obvious to you, mechanism designers, if you’d studied algorithmic mechanism design. But you’re idiots, so you didn’t, you idiots. I hope the AI fixes the problems with your brains because clearly there are many.)
Of course, this is a straightforward problem to fix in the mechanism design: Just make responses to downvoted comments start at −5 karma, instead of having a direct penalty, as suggested elsewhere. I think that suggestion was for unrelated reasons, but it also fixes this little loophole.
This would discourage me much more than the current mechanism: I care very little about my total karma score. (I’m not saying it would be a good thing.
Doesn’t work for me. I had to pay 5 karma to write this comment.
Right, you have to be quick about it. But that just means I have to sacrifice 5 more karma. Obviously someone should make a bot that does this automatically. Agentic intelligence beats stupidity on the part of mechanism designers. This is a warning to all mechanism designers. I can defeat your system. Don’t be idiots, you idiots. Yay artificial intelligence. (Obviously if they create a bot that can ban bots then I can create a bot that creates more bots than they can efficiently ban. P versus NP. This would be completely and immediately obvious to you, mechanism designers, if you’d studied algorithmic mechanism design. But you’re idiots, so you didn’t, you idiots. I hope the AI fixes the problems with your brains because clearly there are many.)
http://xkcd.com/810/
Of course, this is a straightforward problem to fix in the mechanism design: Just make responses to downvoted comments start at −5 karma, instead of having a direct penalty, as suggested elsewhere. I think that suggestion was for unrelated reasons, but it also fixes this little loophole.
This would discourage me much more than the current mechanism: I care very little about my total karma score. (I’m not saying it would be a good thing.
You’re dumb sometimes, army1987, but other times your replies are spot-on and concise, so I like you. :) #perhapsthesamecouldbesaidofallreligions