How it relates to trolling is important, but I consider that a mostly “solved” problem. I don’t think the introduction of Quirrell Points would influence trolling one way or another. If we use it, it’s to accomplish/prevent something else.
What’s also interesting, though, is how optimizing for Karma (as is) can actually degrade post quality. When I found the Time Magazine article about the Singularity, I was like “sweet! I get to post a link and harvest free Karma without doing any work!” I’m not sure if I’ve actually consciously focused efforts on posting with a goal of “karma-for-minimal-effort” but an AI programmed to acquire Karma may well decide to do so.
If the karma system is working optimally, karma-for-minimal-effort should actually correspond to value-to-the-community-for-minimal-effort, which is a perfectly good thing to maxemize. If it’s not then the karma system simply needs tweaking.
I’m not entirely convinced that it’s a solved problem, but I don’t think that the introduction of Quirrell Points would have any influence on it. But, IMHO, the great strength of karma is that the community awards points, not just one person.
And I do agree that karma has the ability to degrade post quality—I’ve noticed that the first comment on a post will generally be upvoted the most (unless the comment is horribly wrong).
How it relates to trolling is important, but I consider that a mostly “solved” problem. I don’t think the introduction of Quirrell Points would influence trolling one way or another. If we use it, it’s to accomplish/prevent something else.
What’s also interesting, though, is how optimizing for Karma (as is) can actually degrade post quality. When I found the Time Magazine article about the Singularity, I was like “sweet! I get to post a link and harvest free Karma without doing any work!” I’m not sure if I’ve actually consciously focused efforts on posting with a goal of “karma-for-minimal-effort” but an AI programmed to acquire Karma may well decide to do so.
If the karma system is working optimally, karma-for-minimal-effort should actually correspond to value-to-the-community-for-minimal-effort, which is a perfectly good thing to maxemize. If it’s not then the karma system simply needs tweaking.
I’m not entirely convinced that it’s a solved problem, but I don’t think that the introduction of Quirrell Points would have any influence on it. But, IMHO, the great strength of karma is that the community awards points, not just one person.
And I do agree that karma has the ability to degrade post quality—I’ve noticed that the first comment on a post will generally be upvoted the most (unless the comment is horribly wrong).