The extension for blinding karma and author names has been a game changer for me. Massively improves my forum experience. Strong upvote, it’d be great to have these as native features so that they are much more accessible and others can enjoy the debiasing and mental health benefits.
I tend to prefer blinding karma instead of the author name. But they’re both useful at different times. I think adding both and making independently controllable would be a huge step forward. Then the community can experiment with favorite configurations for different contexts.
Thanks to the OP, I’ve been meaning to post about this for months. And thanks to the forum devs who are doing a ton of work behind the scenes to make everything on these forums possible.
I think adding both and making independently controllable would be a huge step forward.
Some thoughts, not entirely related:
There was another post about blinding karma (maybe not names), at the post level (so no one can see the karma). This might have some good effects on norms and experiences about voting.
IIRC, this idea about post-level blinding produced a disagreement about practicalities or transparency, and the conversation stopped.
This objection about the transparency/practicalities is solved by a system that blinds karma/names for a fixed, limited, time, say, 1/2/7 days, after which everything is revealed.
Also, you can just have a user option (maybe requiring a token effort, like strong voting requires an effort) to unblind.
Reddit actually implements this temporary system, so that you can’t see recent karma.
There’s many other details that are important.
But basically if you implement a post level system as something authors can opt into, that seems like a win and another way to roll out this feature.
The extension for blinding karma and author names has been a game changer for me. Massively improves my forum experience. Strong upvote, it’d be great to have these as native features so that they are much more accessible and others can enjoy the debiasing and mental health benefits.
I tend to prefer blinding karma instead of the author name. But they’re both useful at different times. I think adding both and making independently controllable would be a huge step forward. Then the community can experiment with favorite configurations for different contexts.
Thanks to the OP, I’ve been meaning to post about this for months. And thanks to the forum devs who are doing a ton of work behind the scenes to make everything on these forums possible.
Some thoughts, not entirely related:
There was another post about blinding karma (maybe not names), at the post level (so no one can see the karma). This might have some good effects on norms and experiences about voting.
IIRC, this idea about post-level blinding produced a disagreement about practicalities or transparency, and the conversation stopped.
This objection about the transparency/practicalities is solved by a system that blinds karma/names for a fixed, limited, time, say, 1/2/7 days, after which everything is revealed.
Also, you can just have a user option (maybe requiring a token effort, like strong voting requires an effort) to unblind.
Reddit actually implements this temporary system, so that you can’t see recent karma.
There’s many other details that are important.
But basically if you implement a post level system as something authors can opt into, that seems like a win and another way to roll out this feature.