I can’t speak for any of the voters, but they can use any criteria they want (taking our goals for the Forum as a set of suggestions that, in practice, they broadly agree with). I’d guess that karma is something that voters consider, because it’s a reasonable measure of how helpful people actually found a post.
A little strange that a post’s karma isn’t part of the prize evaluation process.
(I guess it is implicitly, would be interesting to see an explicit karma component.)
I can’t speak for any of the voters, but they can use any criteria they want (taking our goals for the Forum as a set of suggestions that, in practice, they broadly agree with). I’d guess that karma is something that voters consider, because it’s a reasonable measure of how helpful people actually found a post.