[yvonne]

Somehow I am rather amused that the plus/minus system seems to give me lots of plusses for pithy posts making a pun over some spelling error but generally ignores my lengthy, heavily researched, impassioned posts about some football or OT issue.


But I'm easily amused.

You make a good point. Positives seem to be given if something's pithy or cute, not necessarily whether something's insightful. Nevertheless, I think it's more useful to see a community member's score as an aggregate of what people think of his or her posts than by having members randomly giving karma to one another. I just can't see someone deciding for example, that they didn't like a joke Garvin told at a meetup, and then giving him a demerit on the board.

[yvonne]

Somehow I am rather amused that the plus/minus system seems to give me lots of plusses for pithy posts making a pun over some spelling error but generally ignores my lengthy, heavily researched, impassioned posts about some football or OT issue.


But I'm easily amused.

You make a good point. Positives seem to be given if something's pithy or cute, not necessarily whether something's insightful. Nevertheless, I think it's more useful to see a community member's score as an aggregate of what people think of his or her posts than by having members randomly giving karma to one another. I just can't see someone deciding for example, that they didn't like a joke Garvin told at a meetup, and then giving him a demerit on the board.