Karma is destined to be imperfect—there’s no way to motivate any particular use of it when there’s no mechanism to limit invalid use, and no actual utility of the points. It’s current very simple implementation provides a little bit of benefit in guiding attention to popular posts, and that’s enough.
Anything more complex and it will distract people from the content of the site. Or at least, it’ll distract and annoy me, and I’d prefer not to add unnecessary complexity to a site I enjoy.
I’d like to support the “do nothing” proposal.
Karma is destined to be imperfect—there’s no way to motivate any particular use of it when there’s no mechanism to limit invalid use, and no actual utility of the points. It’s current very simple implementation provides a little bit of benefit in guiding attention to popular posts, and that’s enough.
Anything more complex and it will distract people from the content of the site. Or at least, it’ll distract and annoy me, and I’d prefer not to add unnecessary complexity to a site I enjoy.
Nitpick. Accumulating karma is useful in one respect: high karma users get more automatic karma in our posts, which draws more attention to them.
I agree with the do nothing proposal, by the way. The current system, while imperfect, is simple and effective.
I am also perfectly fine with the status quo, but there’s still value in experimenting and trying to iterate/improve.