People have expressed reasons why they think this is disappointing but I will add another one. This is yet another way that the groupthink-generating karma system will distort our community.
The EA hub didn’t sort people based on karma, but now this new system does. The karma system generates soft-censorship, self-censorship and groupthink. If you write a critique on a post with high-karma authors, they can just strong-downvote it and delete it from the frontpage, which just leaves you with less karma and voting power in the future (and other people can see your low comment-to-karma ratio, or the little icon indicating it, and dismiss you).
People with more voting power can downvote people they disagree with giving them less voting power (and thereby less voting power they can distribute to other people of similar sentiment… ad infinitum) while conversely upvote things they agree with giving those people more voting power (and thereby more voting power they can distribute to people they agree with… ad infinitum).
Getting sorted lower on the directory becomes yet another reason why people wouldn’t want to criticize popular EA people/ideas (and the people that disregard this and go against their own self-interest to help EA as a whole will get yet another punishment for it).
People have expressed reasons why they think this is disappointing but I will add another one. This is yet another way that the groupthink-generating karma system will distort our community.
The EA hub didn’t sort people based on karma, but now this new system does. The karma system generates soft-censorship, self-censorship and groupthink. If you write a critique on a post with high-karma authors, they can just strong-downvote it and delete it from the frontpage, which just leaves you with less karma and voting power in the future (and other people can see your low comment-to-karma ratio, or the little icon indicating it, and dismiss you).
People with more voting power can downvote people they disagree with giving them less voting power (and thereby less voting power they can distribute to other people of similar sentiment… ad infinitum) while conversely upvote things they agree with giving those people more voting power (and thereby more voting power they can distribute to people they agree with… ad infinitum).
Getting sorted lower on the directory becomes yet another reason why people wouldn’t want to criticize popular EA people/ideas (and the people that disregard this and go against their own self-interest to help EA as a whole will get yet another punishment for it).