Thanks for posting this! Karma systems are an underappreciated aspect of forum design and we should definitely consider ways to improve its effects on discourse.
tl;dr The forum software developer habryka has ideas on alternative karma systems and there may even be some ready to use code.
I first heard of EigenKarma in this post from habryka about LessWrong 2.0, where he describes a system inspired by Scott Aaronson's eigendemocracy "in which the weights of the votes of a user depends on how many other trustworthy users have upvoted that user." There is some discussion in the comments to that post which complements this one.
I just searched for project outcomes to update on but didn't find information on what they ended up implementing. I did find this comprehensive commentary on varied purposes of karma systems from the forum software developer, highly recommended read.
I get the sense that they investigated it seriously and there may be prototype or even working code that you could use!
Thanks for posting this! Karma systems are an underappreciated aspect of forum design and we should definitely consider ways to improve its effects on discourse.
tl;dr The forum software developer habryka has ideas on alternative karma systems and there may even be some ready to use code.
I first heard of EigenKarma in this post from habryka about LessWrong 2.0, where he describes a system inspired by Scott Aaronson's eigendemocracy "in which the weights of the votes of a user depends on how many other trustworthy users have upvoted that user." There is some discussion in the comments to that post which complements this one.
I just searched for project outcomes to update on but didn't find information on what they ended up implementing. I did find this comprehensive commentary on varied purposes of karma systems from the forum software developer, highly recommended read.
I get the sense that they investigated it seriously and there may be prototype or even working code that you could use!