(I think that the pushing towards a score thing wasn’t a crux in downvoting, I think there are lots of reasons to downvote things that aren’t harmful as outlined in the ‘how to use the form post/moderator guidelines’)
I think that karma is supposed to be a proxy for the relative value that a post provides.
I’m not sure what you mean by zero-sum here, but I would have thought that the control system type approach is better as the steady-state values will be pushed towards the mean of what users see as the true value of the post. I think that this score + total number of votes is quite easy to interpret.
The everyone voting independently thing performs poorly when some posts have much more views than others (so it seems to be tracking something more like how many people saw it and liked it rather than is the post high quality).
I think I misunderstand your concern, but the control system approach seems, on the surface to be much better to me, but I am keen to find the crux here, if there is one.
(I think that the pushing towards a score thing wasn’t a crux in downvoting, I think there are lots of reasons to downvote things that aren’t harmful as outlined in the ‘how to use the form post/moderator guidelines’)
I think that karma is supposed to be a proxy for the relative value that a post provides.
I’m not sure what you mean by zero-sum here, but I would have thought that the control system type approach is better as the steady-state values will be pushed towards the mean of what users see as the true value of the post. I think that this score + total number of votes is quite easy to interpret.
The everyone voting independently thing performs poorly when some posts have much more views than others (so it seems to be tracking something more like how many people saw it and liked it rather than is the post high quality).
I think I misunderstand your concern, but the control system approach seems, on the surface to be much better to me, but I am keen to find the crux here, if there is one.