I’m not entirely convinced that it’s a solved problem, but I don’t think that the introduction of Quirrell Points would have any influence on it. But, IMHO, the great strength of karma is that the community awards points, not just one person.
And I do agree that karma has the ability to degrade post quality—I’ve noticed that the first comment on a post will generally be upvoted the most (unless the comment is horribly wrong).
I’m not entirely convinced that it’s a solved problem, but I don’t think that the introduction of Quirrell Points would have any influence on it. But, IMHO, the great strength of karma is that the community awards points, not just one person.
And I do agree that karma has the ability to degrade post quality—I’ve noticed that the first comment on a post will generally be upvoted the most (unless the comment is horribly wrong).