A potential issue that could arise if the exchange rate of glory to votes is one-to-one, is that two accounts could farm glory by trading it back and forth indefinitely.
This part confuses me. If you spend 1 glory to give me 1 glory and I spend 1 to give you 1, then we’re just back where we started. If we both make lots of low-effort posts and upvote each others posts (assuming the first upvote is free), then we risk lots of other people downvoting all those posts when they realize what we’re doing (assuming the first downvote is free).
A couple of other potential problems. If the first downvote is free, you could cheaply punish someone by downvoting lots of their posts once, and more prolific posters would be more vulnerable to this. If the first downvote is not free, then there is an incentive to avoid downvoting objectionable posts in the hopes that someone else will spend the points instead.
As for the cheaply punishing prolific posters problem, I don’t know a good solution that doesn’t lead to other problems, as forcing all downvotes to cost glory makes it much harder to deal with spammers who somehow get through the application process filter. I had considered an alternative system in which all votes cost glory, but then there’s no way to generate glory except perhaps by having admins and mods gift them, which could work, but runs counter to the direct democracy ideal that I was sorta going for.
This part confuses me. If you spend 1 glory to give me 1 glory and I spend 1 to give you 1, then we’re just back where we started. If we both make lots of low-effort posts and upvote each others posts (assuming the first upvote is free), then we risk lots of other people downvoting all those posts when they realize what we’re doing (assuming the first downvote is free).
A couple of other potential problems. If the first downvote is free, you could cheaply punish someone by downvoting lots of their posts once, and more prolific posters would be more vulnerable to this. If the first downvote is not free, then there is an incentive to avoid downvoting objectionable posts in the hopes that someone else will spend the points instead.
As for the cheaply punishing prolific posters problem, I don’t know a good solution that doesn’t lead to other problems, as forcing all downvotes to cost glory makes it much harder to deal with spammers who somehow get through the application process filter. I had considered an alternative system in which all votes cost glory, but then there’s no way to generate glory except perhaps by having admins and mods gift them, which could work, but runs counter to the direct democracy ideal that I was sorta going for.
What I meant was you could farm upvotes on your posts. Sorry. I’ll edit it for clarity.