Option 1: Submissions by users created less than Q days ago or with less than R karma receive some fraction S of karma for each upvote.
(Q = R = 30, S = 0.1)
(Q = R = 30, S = 0.1)
How very... feudal.
Anyway, the reward of getting from karma 1 to karma R is greater than from R to R + hogging. If a user is past R karma and then decides to hog, then they're a moron and we should do something about that too.
Any ideas?
"We don't teach people to be nice, we hire nice people" --Leona Helmsley (sp?)
I think we can punish egregiously bad behaviour and we can moderate things, that eliminates outliers. But fundamentally our approach should be to encourage nice people to join and discourage trolls so that they leave.
It is not clear to me that karma is a good mechanism for that... if there is a game, some people will play for the sheer pleasure of winning.
I think the number one way to encourage nice people to use a social site responsibly is to swiftly and severly punish trolling. Nothing sends a message that you prefer signal over noise like banning noisemakers.
JM2C, doesn't really do much about bots.