I think it’s fantastic that people can post and gain karma and feel good.
I can hardly overstate how profoundly wrong and misguided this attitude seems to me. As far as I can tell, this is antithetical to the entire point of a forum like this.
For whatever it’s worth, the sentence above seems true to me, so I would be interested in you elaborating your point. It seems clear to me that we want a positive reward curve for contributions. Without a reward (of some form or another) people will not post to the site. Being part of that reward is the whole point of karma on Reddit and many other websites that use karma systems (and Reddit is after all where our karma system comes from). In our case, we are also adding an additional dimension of giving power to users with a lot of karma, but the dimension of karma serving as positive incentive for posting is definitely still an important function.
I actually had the thought of “I think Said will disagree with me on this, but I forget why” while writing that comment. Like habryka, I’m interested in hearing why you find that misguided; I’ll keep an eye out for a reply to either comment (if you choose to explain further).
I can hardly overstate how profoundly wrong and misguided this attitude seems to me. As far as I can tell, this is antithetical to the entire point of a forum like this.
For whatever it’s worth, the sentence above seems true to me, so I would be interested in you elaborating your point. It seems clear to me that we want a positive reward curve for contributions. Without a reward (of some form or another) people will not post to the site. Being part of that reward is the whole point of karma on Reddit and many other websites that use karma systems (and Reddit is after all where our karma system comes from). In our case, we are also adding an additional dimension of giving power to users with a lot of karma, but the dimension of karma serving as positive incentive for posting is definitely still an important function.
I actually had the thought of “I think Said will disagree with me on this, but I forget why” while writing that comment. Like habryka, I’m interested in hearing why you find that misguided; I’ll keep an eye out for a reply to either comment (if you choose to explain further).