As suggested by another user, please downvote/strong downvote this comment by an equal amount of karma (currently it’s at 29) as the comments which got upvoted for karma, so that I don’t get higher karma just because I am running a poll. Thanks!
I think this is unnecessary. If you provide comments that people agree with that exactly the sort of thing we want to upvote and hence provide karma to.
What’s more, it encourages other people to add their own statements to your poll to gain karma. To me, the incentives look entirely correct here.
Hey Nathan, I can imagine people abusing this though where they just keep making polls to gain karma. I think 100 karma gained via a poll is less value than 100 karma gained from posts or comments, so I’d rather balance it out by allowing people to downvote a comment. Currently, I’ve gotten 29 upvotes and 12 downvotes, so I think it’s fair that the value of this poll is only worth roughly half the karma of a normal post/comment. I imagine in future polls, not everyone will downvote—only those that think karma gained through polls is not fair.
Hey everyone if you think Brian is wrong about not deserving lots of Karma for posting an interesting and well thought out question you can just upvote this reply he made (I did).
As suggested by another user, please downvote/strong downvote this comment by an equal amount of karma (currently it’s at 29) as the comments which got upvoted for karma, so that I don’t get higher karma just because I am running a poll. Thanks!
I think this is unnecessary. If you provide comments that people agree with that exactly the sort of thing we want to upvote and hence provide karma to.
What’s more, it encourages other people to add their own statements to your poll to gain karma. To me, the incentives look entirely correct here.
Happy to be wrong.
Hey Nathan, I can imagine people abusing this though where they just keep making polls to gain karma. I think 100 karma gained via a poll is less value than 100 karma gained from posts or comments, so I’d rather balance it out by allowing people to downvote a comment. Currently, I’ve gotten 29 upvotes and 12 downvotes, so I think it’s fair that the value of this poll is only worth roughly half the karma of a normal post/comment. I imagine in future polls, not everyone will downvote—only those that think karma gained through polls is not fair.
I suggest that if people were seen to be abusing the functionality people wouldn’t upvote those posts.
I can understand that post karma should be worth more than comment karma though.
Also, I’m not sure how much the community cares about karma. Not saying it doesn’t, I just don’t know.
Hey everyone if you think Brian is wrong about not deserving lots of Karma for posting an interesting and well thought out question you can just upvote this reply he made (I did).