“where N is the total karma of this post three months from now, up to a max of $20,000”
Ad I’m torn because I obviously want to entice you to donate more, but I don’t support people buying Karma in a direct ” $ donated in → Karma out” fashion like this.
I’ve seen people do a thing where, if they’re using karma to collect votes, for example, they include a second comment to downvote, so their net karma remains the same. You could also use the agree-votes on a comment to collect votes (rather than the post karma itself).
Good idea. Everyone please downvote this comment of mine if they want to support the app idea but don’t want to give me karma as a byproduct of my polling strategy.
Hmmm. I really don’t want the karma, I was using it as a signal of how good the idea is. Like, creating this app is only worth someone’s time and money if it becomes a popular app that lots of people use. So if it only gets like 20 karma then it isn’t worth it, and arguably even if it gets 50 karma it isn’t worth it. But if it blows up and hundreds of people like it, that’s a signal that it’s going to be used by lots of people.
Maybe I should have just asked “Comment in the comments if you’d use this app; if at least 30 people do so then I’ll fund this app.” Idk. If y’all think I should do something like that instead I’m happy to do so.
ETA: Edited the OP to remove the vote-brigady aspect.
Everyone please downvote this comment of mine if they want to support the app idea but don’t want to give me karma as a byproduct of my polling strategy; this cancels out the karma I get from the OP.
This kinda feels like vote brigading:
“where N is the total karma of this post three months from now, up to a max of $20,000”
Ad I’m torn because I obviously want to entice you to donate more, but I don’t support people buying Karma in a direct ” $ donated in → Karma out” fashion like this.
Recent forum post on vote brigading here:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sDkHTdBsrpz7teMR2/please-don-t-vote-brigade
I’ve seen people do a thing where, if they’re using karma to collect votes, for example, they include a second comment to downvote, so their net karma remains the same. You could also use the agree-votes on a comment to collect votes (rather than the post karma itself).
Good idea. Everyone please downvote this comment of mine if they want to support the app idea but don’t want to give me karma as a byproduct of my polling strategy.
Hmmm. I really don’t want the karma, I was using it as a signal of how good the idea is. Like, creating this app is only worth someone’s time and money if it becomes a popular app that lots of people use. So if it only gets like 20 karma then it isn’t worth it, and arguably even if it gets 50 karma it isn’t worth it. But if it blows up and hundreds of people like it, that’s a signal that it’s going to be used by lots of people.
Maybe I should have just asked “Comment in the comments if you’d use this app; if at least 30 people do so then I’ll fund this app.” Idk. If y’all think I should do something like that instead I’m happy to do so.
ETA: Edited the OP to remove the vote-brigady aspect.
Everyone please downvote this comment of mine if they want to support the app idea but don’t want to give me karma as a byproduct of my polling strategy; this cancels out the karma I get from the OP.