That’s true but hiding karma is an important thing for reducing bias (e.g. people being inclined to upvote something because it’s already upvoted) and mental health. So it would be a great thing to have has a built-in feature (and perhaps even the default) so that it’s accessible for many more users.
Karma scores are still important when it’s hidden for sorting content by quality/popularity, it’s just more of a behind-the-scenes thing.
I personally actually think that voting towards the karma score you think a comment should have, instead of voting independently, produces a better aggregate judgement (I.e. I downvote 200 karma posts if I think they should only have 150 karma, and I upvote comments at −5 if I think they should only be at −2). This of course requires seeing the current vote, and so am a bit hesitant to have too large of a population to a different thing instead (and to have a UI that makes it feel like people are supposed to vote independently).
That said, we don’t have any super clear guidance on this topic, and there is a decent amount of disagreement in the user base on what style of voting (independent or relative) is better.
You can currently do this on greaterwrong.com and also there is a browser plugin that does this, I think.
That’s true but hiding karma is an important thing for reducing bias (e.g. people being inclined to upvote something because it’s already upvoted) and mental health. So it would be a great thing to have has a built-in feature (and perhaps even the default) so that it’s accessible for many more users.
Karma scores are still important when it’s hidden for sorting content by quality/popularity, it’s just more of a behind-the-scenes thing.
(Thanks for all your great work on these forums.)
I personally actually think that voting towards the karma score you think a comment should have, instead of voting independently, produces a better aggregate judgement (I.e. I downvote 200 karma posts if I think they should only have 150 karma, and I upvote comments at −5 if I think they should only be at −2). This of course requires seeing the current vote, and so am a bit hesitant to have too large of a population to a different thing instead (and to have a UI that makes it feel like people are supposed to vote independently).
That said, we don’t have any super clear guidance on this topic, and there is a decent amount of disagreement in the user base on what style of voting (independent or relative) is better.