What if we set a significantly higher karma threshold for voting? I think a threshold of 250 or so would make Eugene’s sockpuppetry and mass-downvoting shenanigans prohibitively difficult.
Well, depends on how large fraction of votes currently comes from users with karma under 250. It would be bad to reduce the total number of votes drastically. They do have a positive role, in general; most people use them correctly.
If you can look at them, and then write a script that takes a number (or a list of numbers) as an input, and displays total number of LW users, and number of LW users with karma smaller than given number… well, that would be the first step. Otherwise, we need to wait until someone does it.
What if we set a significantly higher karma threshold for voting? I think a threshold of 250 or so would make Eugene’s sockpuppetry and mass-downvoting shenanigans prohibitively difficult.
Sounds like this could work.
Well, depends on how large fraction of votes currently comes from users with karma under 250. It would be bad to reduce the total number of votes drastically. They do have a positive role, in general; most people use them correctly.
Good point. I’m not sure what the right threshold would be.
How difficult would it be to look up the percentage of votes that come from different karma levels?
Here are some existing Python scripts for LW.
If you can look at them, and then write a script that takes a number (or a list of numbers) as an input, and displays total number of LW users, and number of LW users with karma smaller than given number… well, that would be the first step. Otherwise, we need to wait until someone does it.