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This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
don't feel ready to be written up as a full post
I think the process of writing them up might make them worse (i.e. longer than they need to be)
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A mechanism I really like is making certain kinds of votes scarce. I've appreciated it when it was a function on other sites I've used, as I think it improved things.
For example, Stack Overflow lets you spend karma in various ways. Two that come to mind:
downvotes cost karma (a downvote causing -5 karma costs the downvoter 2 karma)
you can pay karma to get attention (you can effectively super strong upvote your own posts, but you pay karma to do it)
Ways this or something similar might work on LW:
you get a budget of strong votes (say 1 per day) that you can save and spend how you like but you can't strong upvote everything
you get a budget of downvotes
strong votes cost karma
downvotes cost karma
I like this because it at least puts a break on excess use of votes in fights and otherwise makes these signals more valuable when they are used because they are not free like they are now.
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.