I don’t care about karma, but I do care about the things that karma is supposed to be a proxy for. Therefore, I act mostly like I care about karma, except that I oppose anything which weakens the connection between karma and post quality.
I don’t know if this would complicate things but it seems like karma sums can easily fail to tell us what we want to know about a poster. It would be nice to have karma stats like karma/comment, percentage of karma from top-level posts, subjective karma rankings (which is just the karma you’ve given out), karma weighted for posters you like, karma weighted for poster you dislike etc.
:-) Er. If it is starting to sound like a Whuffie that is because I just stole the last three ideas from that wikipedia entry. I literally read that page five minutes ago, after I googled “reputation economy” and started reading the Doctorow book when Kevin brought it up above.
I don’t care about karma, but I do care about the things that karma is supposed to be a proxy for. Therefore, I act mostly like I care about karma, except that I oppose anything which weakens the connection between karma and post quality.
I don’t know if this would complicate things but it seems like karma sums can easily fail to tell us what we want to know about a poster. It would be nice to have karma stats like karma/comment, percentage of karma from top-level posts, subjective karma rankings (which is just the karma you’ve given out), karma weighted for posters you like, karma weighted for poster you dislike etc.
This is starting to sound like Whuffie. Which might be nifty, actually, but computationally difficult.
The social aspects of implementing Whuffie are much harder than the computational aspects.
:-) Er. If it is starting to sound like a Whuffie that is because I just stole the last three ideas from that wikipedia entry. I literally read that page five minutes ago, after I googled “reputation economy” and started reading the Doctorow book when Kevin brought it up above.