Yeah, but I think the problem is then that in the case of comments the consensus seems actually too dominated by people’s initial strong-vote, and arguing against Eliezer on LW with a 10 karma upvote would make it feel like consensus is heavily stacked against you in a way I also don’t like.
I mean, that would just make the total karma system in 90% of cases worse. For example I think it totally makes sense for posts by Eliezer to start with that much karma, since I think there is a strong prior that they are going to be pretty good.
Ah, yeah, I think that’s a kind of reasonable thing to do. My primary hesitation is that it’s not super intuitive and adds complexity, but it seems like one of the reasonable ways forward.
Yeah, but I think the problem is then that in the case of comments the consensus seems actually too dominated by people’s initial strong-vote, and arguing against Eliezer on LW with a 10 karma upvote would make it feel like consensus is heavily stacked against you in a way I also don’t like.
Most people have strong upvote strength 3-7 though. Anyway, if this is a big problem, then just cap self-upvote strength around 5?
I mean, that would just make the total karma system in 90% of cases worse. For example I think it totally makes sense for posts by Eliezer to start with that much karma, since I think there is a strong prior that they are going to be pretty good.
I was thinking just for comments.
Ah, yeah, I think that’s a kind of reasonable thing to do. My primary hesitation is that it’s not super intuitive and adds complexity, but it seems like one of the reasonable ways forward.