This is an interesting question. It would certainly prevent a bunch of bad behavior and force people to be more intentional in their voting. Here are I think the main reasons we / LW have talked about it but not implemented it:
a) Some people just read way more of the Forum than others. Should their votes have less weight because they must be spread over many comments?
b) I don’t want users to have to think about conserving their voting resources. If they like something, I want them to vote something and move on. Karma is fun, but the purpose of the site is the content.
I’d be interested in seeing views/ hits counters on every post and general data on traffic.
We could a) put that data on the start of every post or b) put it under a menu option under the … menu. I think (a) wouldn’t provide enough value to balance the cost of busying the UI, which is currently very sparse and the more valuable for it. I don’t expect (b) would be used much. I don’t have the data to back this up (yet! I really want to be able to easily check all of these) but I guess most people don’t click on those menu buttons very often.
I’d be interested in seeing views/ hits counters on every post and general data on traffic.
Also quadratic voting for upvotes.
This is an interesting question. It would certainly prevent a bunch of bad behavior and force people to be more intentional in their voting. Here are I think the main reasons we / LW have talked about it but not implemented it:
a) Some people just read way more of the Forum than others. Should their votes have less weight because they must be spread over many comments?
b) I don’t want users to have to think about conserving their voting resources. If they like something, I want them to vote something and move on. Karma is fun, but the purpose of the site is the content.
We could a) put that data on the start of every post or b) put it under a menu option under the … menu. I think (a) wouldn’t provide enough value to balance the cost of busying the UI, which is currently very sparse and the more valuable for it. I don’t expect (b) would be used much. I don’t have the data to back this up (yet! I really want to be able to easily check all of these) but I guess most people don’t click on those menu buttons very often.