It seems bizarre that, without my strong upvote, this comment is at minus 3 karma.
Karma polarization seems to have become much worse recently. I think a revision of the karma system is urgently needed.
I have some hope that splitting out votes into two dimensions (approval and agreement) might help with situations like this. At least it seems to have helped with some recent AI-adjacent threads on LW that were also pretty divisive.
Yes, that is also my hope. Thanks for developing this.
It might this might just be the work one or two people. Maybe the mods can take a look?
We could create a script (using a sprinkling of NLP or classifier) to identify unreasonably downvoted comments and show how prevalent this is.
It seems bizarre that, without my strong upvote, this comment is at minus 3 karma.
Karma polarization seems to have become much worse recently. I think a revision of the karma system is urgently needed.
I have some hope that splitting out votes into two dimensions (approval and agreement) might help with situations like this. At least it seems to have helped with some recent AI-adjacent threads on LW that were also pretty divisive.
Yes, that is also my hope. Thanks for developing this.
It might this might just be the work one or two people. Maybe the mods can take a look?
We could create a script (using a sprinkling of NLP or classifier) to identify unreasonably downvoted comments and show how prevalent this is.