Is there a writeup on LW2.0 karma/vote philosophy behind decisions like this? I’m really pleased that LW2.0 doesn’t show poster’s or commenter’s accumulated karm, only the votes for this specific post/comment. I hope that won’t change, and if it doesn’t, then I don’t see much reason to import, adjust, or otherwise mess with the past totals.
If it _does_ change, and/or there is some reason to care about totals, I’d recommend the opposite of this action: rather than preserving past scores, you should make karma decay over time, to
I’m really pleased that LW2.0 doesn’t show poster’s or commenter’s accumulated karm, only the votes for this specific post/comment.
Just like old LW, accumulated karma has been visible at a user’s profile page. The main things we’ve dropped are the sidebars on all-time karma (which got dropped a while ago before the site change) and top contributors in last 30 days.
If it _does_ change, and/or there is some reason to care about totals
Currently, votes are weighted based on a user’s current accumulated karma. Before the import, it was the case that a veteran user who hadn’t participated in the beta had less powerful votes than a fresh user who had participated in the beta.
We covered a bit of our philosophy and ideas in the Strategic Overview post and the launch post.
The primary reason to mess with the past totals soon is that with the recent switch towards weighted karma, we introduced quite a bit of karma inflation, and we might not want to heavily overrepresent this specific period in the calculations that determine your vote-weight.
In the long-run I expect we will try various ways of using the vote-data we have to create more reliable and useful reputation systems than what we have right now (e.g. something like Eigenkarma), and for that we will probably change karma totals in some way or another (or make the idea of karma totals meaningless, who knows).
Is there a writeup on LW2.0 karma/vote philosophy behind decisions like this? I’m really pleased that LW2.0 doesn’t show poster’s or commenter’s accumulated karm, only the votes for this specific post/comment. I hope that won’t change, and if it doesn’t, then I don’t see much reason to import, adjust, or otherwise mess with the past totals.
If it _does_ change, and/or there is some reason to care about totals, I’d recommend the opposite of this action: rather than preserving past scores, you should make karma decay over time, to
Just like old LW, accumulated karma has been visible at a user’s profile page. The main things we’ve dropped are the sidebars on all-time karma (which got dropped a while ago before the site change) and top contributors in last 30 days.
Currently, votes are weighted based on a user’s current accumulated karma. Before the import, it was the case that a veteran user who hadn’t participated in the beta had less powerful votes than a fresh user who had participated in the beta.
We covered a bit of our philosophy and ideas in the Strategic Overview post and the launch post.
The primary reason to mess with the past totals soon is that with the recent switch towards weighted karma, we introduced quite a bit of karma inflation, and we might not want to heavily overrepresent this specific period in the calculations that determine your vote-weight.
In the long-run I expect we will try various ways of using the vote-data we have to create more reliable and useful reputation systems than what we have right now (e.g. something like Eigenkarma), and for that we will probably change karma totals in some way or another (or make the idea of karma totals meaningless, who knows).