EA organizations should be run democratically, and the karma system, or at least the agreement karma, should also be (more) democratic.
EDIT: I would like to point out that having a lot of disagreement karma doesn’t necessarily mean most people disagree. When this suggestion had three votes it had positive agreement karma, but when I returned at five votes it had negative:
I stuck around for a bit to see how the karma would evolve:
What we see is that the downvotes contain a lot more voting weight than the upvotes. This seems logical, people with more voting power have an incentive to use that power to make sure they don’t lose it. We really cannot conclude what the EA community believes/wants based on the results of the karma-system, and if we want to know what the community really wants I suggest we use polls/surveys instead.
EA organizations should be run democratically, and the karma system, or at least the agreement karma, should also be (more) democratic.
EDIT: I would like to point out that having a lot of disagreement karma doesn’t necessarily mean most people disagree. When this suggestion had three votes it had positive agreement karma, but when I returned at five votes it had negative:
I stuck around for a bit to see how the karma would evolve:
What we see is that the downvotes contain a lot more voting weight than the upvotes. This seems logical, people with more voting power have an incentive to use that power to make sure they don’t lose it. We really cannot conclude what the EA community believes/wants based on the results of the karma-system, and if we want to know what the community really wants I suggest we use polls/surveys instead.