I’m wondering if it’d be good to have something special happen to posts where a comment has more karma than the OP. Like, decrease the font size of the OP and increase the font size of the comment, or display the comment first, or have a red warning light emoji next to the post’s title or …
Or maybe the commenter gets a $1,000 prize whenever that happens.
Good versions of “something special” would also incentivize the public service of pointing out significant flaws in posts by making comments that have a shot at exceeding the OP’s karma score.
Obviously “there exists a comment that has higher karma than the OP” is an imperfect proxy of what we’re after here, but anecdotally it seems to me this proxy works surprisingly well (though maybe it would stop due to Goodhart issues if we did any of the above) and it has the upside that it can be evaluated automatically.
I’m wondering if it’d be good to have something special happen to posts where a comment has more karma than the OP. Like, decrease the font size of the OP and increase the font size of the comment, or display the comment first, or have a red warning light emoji next to the post’s title or …
Or maybe the commenter gets a $1,000 prize whenever that happens.
Good versions of “something special” would also incentivize the public service of pointing out significant flaws in posts by making comments that have a shot at exceeding the OP’s karma score.
Obviously “there exists a comment that has higher karma than the OP” is an imperfect proxy of what we’re after here, but anecdotally it seems to me this proxy works surprisingly well (though maybe it would stop due to Goodhart issues if we did any of the above) and it has the upside that it can be evaluated automatically.