If it’s possible, I’ve always thought it might be helpful to have a second karma score that’s a function of karma vs. number of viewers of the full post. Or simply a counter for number of viewers.
Edit: This would be points for a post/article, not necessarily for comments or users.
Less Wrong does not currently collect the information necessary to determine number of viewers. The closest available approximation is pageloads containing the comment, but that doesn’t give information about how much of the page the reader scrolled through, or how quickly, which would be necessary to determine what they actually looked at and read.
If it’s possible, I’ve always thought it might be helpful to have a second karma score that’s a function of karma vs. number of viewers of the full post. Or simply a counter for number of viewers.
Edit: This would be points for a post/article, not necessarily for comments or users.
Less Wrong does not currently collect the information necessary to determine number of viewers. The closest available approximation is pageloads containing the comment, but that doesn’t give information about how much of the page the reader scrolled through, or how quickly, which would be necessary to determine what they actually looked at and read.
Does what you say apply to posts, or just comments? I mostly meant posts.
I would hope that enough LWers read entire posts to make an even imperfect implementation worthwhile.
It only applies to comments. Reading a post is a separate pageview, as long as there’s some text below the fold.