He didn’t mean your karma specifically, but Arbitrary Hypothetical Second-Person Comment-Poster X’s karma.
For example, suppose E.Y. were to post, for whatever reason (cat jumping on keyboard?), a really pointless, flawed comment that everyone actually downvoted. If the algorithm takes into account the poster’s total Karma in some proportional manner not implementing any diminutive return strategy, then E.Y.’s downvoted comment would still be at the top unless it received an amount of downvotes that seems almost impossible to obtain using only the current active LW readership.
For example, suppose E.Y. were to post, for whatever reason (cat jumping on keyboard?), a really pointless, flawed comment that everyone actually downvoted...
Irrelevant in practice, since in that scenario the comment would be massively upvoted.
He didn’t mean your karma specifically, but Arbitrary Hypothetical Second-Person Comment-Poster X’s karma.
For example, suppose E.Y. were to post, for whatever reason (cat jumping on keyboard?), a really pointless, flawed comment that everyone actually downvoted. If the algorithm takes into account the poster’s total Karma in some proportional manner not implementing any diminutive return strategy, then E.Y.’s downvoted comment would still be at the top unless it received an amount of downvotes that seems almost impossible to obtain using only the current active LW readership.
Ah. That makes sense. I don’t know why that didn’t occur to me. Regardless, I don’t think it does, based on explanations here and here.
This happened once (F12 was mapped to that set of keystrokes at the time).
BTW, who was it who had a script to sort all the comments by a user by karma? wedrifid?
Wei Dai’s thing will do that—click “points” at the top after loading the whole page.
Yes, it was that one I was thinking about. Thanks.
Haha! Thanks, great example.
I’d say that using it in a proportional manner not implementing any diminutive return strategy would be a mistake and a bad algorithm.
Irrelevant in practice, since in that scenario the comment would be massively upvoted.
Yudkowsky’s been downvoted before; the most notable time in recent memory was probably removing the link to the NY Observer article.
I think I misread that comment as Eliezer posting a picture or video of a cat jumping on the keyboard.
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