Zoltan Foris

Let me explain this suggestion of mine: "So I would rather make sure that the bottom half of criticism gets an increasing potential for negative karma impact, by applying a weight on the upvote points starting from 1 for the median criticism, and progressing towards 0 for the worst criticism. (goodness can be measured as unweighted votes divided by number of votes.)"

I explain on an example. There are 800 criticisms arrived in Januar 2024, in total. all have their upvote/downvote based points (let us say as of 15 Feb), let me call these "raw points".  We put them in the order of increasing raw points. The worst let be -5, the 100th... (read more)

Hi. As I understand the point system has two main outcomes: changes in Plan points, and changes in user karma. (Criticism points are a means to both.) 

Let me adress the proposed changes in user karma based on criticism up/downvote. The original suggestion is that "downvote points will lower the criticizers karma by N point, an xN number of upvote points will raise the criticizer's karma". In this case most criticism will end up increasing the user's karma, some more, some less, but the balance will be almost always towards upvote, becaus people are friendly, they are more ready to upvote than to downvote. The final result is that even if you are... (read more)