Insofar as “total karma should try to approximate ideal ‘Rationalist Social Status’”
Cool, that’s a good goal. The ideal approach to implementation would be propose the social status of, say 2000 randomly-selected posters, and then to run a regression over lots of variables to figure out how to predict that from posts. I don’t think that starting with “a function of votes on posts and comments” is likely to get there—too many other dimensions play into it.
I suspect my karma total is ridiculously high in terms of social status. It’s huge just because I’ve been here a long time.
Cool, that’s a good goal. The ideal approach to implementation would be propose the social status of, say 2000 randomly-selected posters, and then to run a regression over lots of variables to figure out how to predict that from posts. I don’t think that starting with “a function of votes on posts and comments” is likely to get there—too many other dimensions play into it.
I suspect my karma total is ridiculously high in terms of social status. It’s huge just because I’ve been here a long time.