”I looked at the number of people who had marked something as “most valuable,” and then divided by [karma score]^1.5. All of these were marked as most valuable by at least two people.
Just dividing by karma didn’t change the list much, and dividing by karma^2 penalized karma too much. I played with a few other ways of modifying the “underrated-ness” metric, but they didn’t seem better.”
Is there any thought as to ways to change the karma system so that posts which were underrated get what they deserve immediately?
We could take away the bizarre mechanic where people with more karma have votes that are more strongly weighted.
I reckon that one leads to better rather than worse results.
How would you implement such a system? How could the system know if something is worth their karma points and something else is underrated?
see the post footnote:
”I looked at the number of people who had marked something as “most valuable,” and then divided by [karma score]^1.5. All of these were marked as most valuable by at least two people.
Just dividing by karma didn’t change the list much, and dividing by karma^2 penalized karma too much. I played with a few other ways of modifying the “underrated-ness” metric, but they didn’t seem better.”