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.
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.