One way to solve this problem without having to add extra features to the software would be to award fractional points of karma for slightly valuable comments e.g. the mildly amusing ones.
On the face of it, the software doesn’t support fractional karma, but this is easily accomplished using randomness e.g. award 0.5 points by flipping a coin to decide whether to award a point or not.
Related thought occurs to me: one thing about Karma is that GIVING Karma is kinda fun, as well as receiving. Deliberately not giving someone Karma when they just made you smile feels mean to me.
The glorious thing about this suggestion is that randomly deciding whether to give someone Karma (and then telling them you randomly did so) is ALSO fun, perhaps more fun than giving a Karma point in the first place. Increasing the total fun in the world makes this an excellent solution.
I gave you a full point just now (in addition to my fractional point that came up tails), but not a Quirrel point, since your idea was very neat but didn’t require much effort.
I don’t mean adding code to do that, I mean doing it yourself starting today, flipping a coin to decide whether to click the existing upvote button or not.
One way to solve this problem without having to add extra features to the software would be to award fractional points of karma for slightly valuable comments e.g. the mildly amusing ones.
On the face of it, the software doesn’t support fractional karma, but this is easily accomplished using randomness e.g. award 0.5 points by flipping a coin to decide whether to award a point or not.
Related thought occurs to me: one thing about Karma is that GIVING Karma is kinda fun, as well as receiving. Deliberately not giving someone Karma when they just made you smile feels mean to me.
The glorious thing about this suggestion is that randomly deciding whether to give someone Karma (and then telling them you randomly did so) is ALSO fun, perhaps more fun than giving a Karma point in the first place. Increasing the total fun in the world makes this an excellent solution.
I gave you a full point just now (in addition to my fractional point that came up tails), but not a Quirrel point, since your idea was very neat but didn’t require much effort.
I used a random number generator to decide whether to upvote this comment or not. It came up “upvote.” Enjoy your karma in this Everett branch.
Edit: somebody downvoted me? Was it because they didn’t like my comment, or because they flipped a coin for upvote/downvote?
My coin came up “don’t upvote.” Sorry!
It’s okay. There are probably other worlds where you upvoted.
Is that any less of a new feature than adding a new count? (I don’t know the answer to the question)
I don’t mean adding code to do that, I mean doing it yourself starting today, flipping a coin to decide whether to click the existing upvote button or not.
Ah. Interesting. Might try that.