I don’t think it is good to have your vote as a function of the current karma value, except in very special cases. One is negative karma quick takes, another one is with the impossible condition that most people in LW uses a distributed cooperation scheme that can make the karma value converge.
Otherwise, if everyone try to vote to make the post the “fair valuation” (which can be different per person):
It will just make you try to change your vote every so often
It makes algorithmic adjustments work less well. I would hope that LW eventually uses some impression-weighted karma value for the frontpage (unsure if currently being used), rather than everyone trying to use their own internal algorithm, which would make such adjustments inaccurate.
I mostly agree, with an exception for posts/comments that are already negative or close to zero.
I see a comment I think is useless/unpleasant/bad, and I think about downvoting it. I see its currently sitting at −10 and dont vote because I dont want to pile on even harder against that person. But, if the same comment had been at +20 i would have thought ‘what, really? Well, downvote’.
If I like something I dont let its current karma effect my voting.
I don’t think it is good to have your vote as a function of the current karma value, except in very special cases. One is negative karma quick takes, another one is with the impossible condition that most people in LW uses a distributed cooperation scheme that can make the karma value converge.
Otherwise, if everyone try to vote to make the post the “fair valuation” (which can be different per person):
It will just make you try to change your vote every so often
It makes algorithmic adjustments work less well. I would hope that LW eventually uses some impression-weighted karma value for the frontpage (unsure if currently being used), rather than everyone trying to use their own internal algorithm, which would make such adjustments inaccurate.
I mostly agree, with an exception for posts/comments that are already negative or close to zero.
I see a comment I think is useless/unpleasant/bad, and I think about downvoting it. I see its currently sitting at −10 and dont vote because I dont want to pile on even harder against that person. But, if the same comment had been at +20 i would have thought ‘what, really? Well, downvote’.
If I like something I dont let its current karma effect my voting.
Fwiw I made a post/question/poll about this once (like whether you should vote based on total karma).