It feels like an important metric is “karma per view” or “karma per read” or “karma per user-minute-looking-at-text” something similar. Currently, we can’t gauge that, and so when someone who gives a strong prior that their post will be worth reading posts, that post will get more views which means more upvotes even if they have a similar “karma per read”.
EDIT: EY’s post loaded the second I posted this, but I promise it was an independent invention
Karma also involves strong upvotes (and that’s before getting into ’people with more karma have their votes counted more). I’m reading this right now at
EY: 37 karma, 19 votes (I don’t know what the base line is for his default upvote of himself*.)
Alex Hollow: 18 karma 11 votes.
If we assume both consist of upvotes, then it seems pretty clear this a result of a) lots of strong upvotes (those votes aren’t counting once). b) people whose ‘upvote’ increases karma by two, with a few strong upvotes thrown in, or c) a mixture of a and b.
It feels like an important metric is “karma per view” or “karma per read” or “karma per user-minute-looking-at-text” something similar. Currently, we can’t gauge that, and so when someone who gives a strong prior that their post will be worth reading posts, that post will get more views which means more upvotes even if they have a similar “karma per read”.
EDIT: EY’s post loaded the second I posted this, but I promise it was an independent invention
And ironically, your post has substantially less karma than Eliezer’s does, despite saying basically the same thing!
Karma also involves strong upvotes (and that’s before getting into ’people with more karma have their votes counted more). I’m reading this right now at
EY: 37 karma, 19 votes (I don’t know what the base line is for his default upvote of himself*.)
Alex Hollow: 18 karma 11 votes.
If we assume both consist of upvotes, then it seems pretty clear this a result of a) lots of strong upvotes (those votes aren’t counting once). b) people whose ‘upvote’ increases karma by two, with a few strong upvotes thrown in, or c) a mixture of a and b.
*His karma is 116,019 though.