Add a sorting option for Occlumency so people can find the posts with the most enduring value historically (sorting by total karma doesn’t do it due to the sharp increase in karma allocated towards newer posts due to influx of new forum users).
Add a tag for “outdated” that people can vote up or down, so that outdated but highly upvoted past posts don’t continually mislead people (e.g. based on research that failed to replicate). I can’t think of any posts atm, but if you can think of any, please mark them.
Consider hiding authorship and karma for posts 24 hours after publication to decrease how sensitive final karma is to slight variations in initial conditions that are amplified by information cascades. I don’t actually advocate doing this, I just recommend considering it to see if it makes sense to people who could know better. My intuition is that it’s not worth the cost.
Thanks for the suggestions. Responding here rather than on the post. I like the “Occlumency” idea, and have been thinking along those lines. I’ve recorded it.
I also like outdated, have passed on to Topics lead Pablo.
We’ve heard this before. I personally lean in the direction that this is the right sort of thing to think about, but does not make for a good Forum experience. There might be other approaches like “ratio of upvotes to reads” that would serve the final purpose while being less disruptive.
Add a sorting option for Occlumency so people can find the posts with the most enduring value historically (sorting by total karma doesn’t do it due to the sharp increase in karma allocated towards newer posts due to influx of new forum users).
Add a tag for “outdated” that people can vote up or down, so that outdated but highly upvoted past posts don’t continually mislead people (e.g. based on research that failed to replicate). I can’t think of any posts atm, but if you can think of any, please mark them.
Consider hiding authorship and karma for posts 24 hours after publication to decrease how sensitive final karma is to slight variations in initial conditions that are amplified by information cascades. I don’t actually advocate doing this, I just recommend considering it to see if it makes sense to people who could know better. My intuition is that it’s not worth the cost.
Thanks for the suggestions. Responding here rather than on the post. I like the “Occlumency” idea, and have been thinking along those lines. I’ve recorded it.
I also like outdated, have passed on to Topics lead Pablo.
We’ve heard this before. I personally lean in the direction that this is the right sort of thing to think about, but does not make for a good Forum experience. There might be other approaches like “ratio of upvotes to reads” that would serve the final purpose while being less disruptive.