though I’m not sure how that is calculateed from one’s karma
I believe it’s proportional to the log of your user karma. But I’m not sure.
One can get high karma from a small amount of content that a small number of sufficiently high karma users that double up vote it.
There is still an incentive gradient towards “least publishable units”.
Suppose you have a piece of work worth 18 karma to high-karma user U. However, U’s strong upvote is only worth 8 karma.
If you just post one piece of work, you get 8 karma. If you split your work into three pieces, each of which U values at 6 karma, you’re better off. U might strong-upvote all of them (they’d rather allocate a little too much karma than way too little), and you get 24 karma.
To the extend the metaphor in the original question: maybe if the world economy ran on the equivalent of strong upvotes there would still be cars around, yet no one could buy airplanes.
I believe it’s proportional to the log of your user karma. But I’m not sure.
There is still an incentive gradient towards “least publishable units”.
Suppose you have a piece of work worth 18 karma to high-karma user U. However, U’s strong upvote is only worth 8 karma.
If you just post one piece of work, you get 8 karma. If you split your work into three pieces, each of which U values at 6 karma, you’re better off. U might strong-upvote all of them (they’d rather allocate a little too much karma than way too little), and you get 24 karma.
To the extend the metaphor in the original question: maybe if the world economy ran on the equivalent of strong upvotes there would still be cars around, yet no one could buy airplanes.