Why is karma on Habré good?
The week of karma posts ends. Once again chewed, why karma is bad, once again changes are proposed. Let's figure out why karma is good.
To begin with, Habr is (about) a technical resource that positions itself as "polite." Insults and ignorance are not welcome here, and this is indicated in the rules of the site. As a result, politics is banned - from it it is very easy to pass on to individuals in an impolite manner.
The basis of the Habr fundamentals is posts. Under many there are valuable comments, sometimes even more valuable than the post. The time of the "active" life of most posts is two to three days. Then the discussion calms down, and the post is opened either from bookmarks, or by issuing Google.
Authors should be motivated to write posts. There are several options.
Readers go to Habr for 3 things:
Administration understands its resource. The administration also wants to earn money from him. And this is honest, because the administration invests money and time in the development of Habr. Actually, the purely financial goals of the administration are simple: to stimulate views, minimize costs.
Views are determined by the number of posts and comments (by the number of hubs - now two people can see completely different posts on the Habré). The quality of posts may be average, because the competition is low. Frank g ** but not welcome, because it scares away the audience. One of the mechanisms to minimize costs is karma.
Administration (partially) transfers responsibility for moderation to users. Users can tell the administration: this comrade generates excellent things, but this one drives fierce game with the mention of Putin and Trump.
Transfer of responsibility is not the easiest process. You need to find the right person, you need to take feedback from him, and you need to do all this automatically. A hundred thousand users - this is not something that can be raked by hand.
In the end, we have karma. It is assumed that the carriers of positive karma honor the rules and will identify violators. It is assumed that the carriers of positive karma are (about) people technical, and will identify their own kind. Roughly speaking, polite (about) techies will mark greens of their own kind and stoke red snappers or “humanists” in red.
The administration recognizes the "greens" as true techies, and they are moderating. The Reds, on the other hand, generate messages that run counter to the needs of Central Asia - and their UFOs are taken away to TuGNeSveS.
Just in case, the administration sets an additional “exam for professional suitability”: a requirement to write an article. This will kill 2 birds with one stone (actually more): the content is generated, and "green" shows that he is really a techie, faithful to the principles of the site .
The whole mechanism works in automatic mode. The mechanism is as simple as possible , otherwise the "green" will be filon. The mechanism makes mistakes - but this is acceptable. The mechanism is cheap. As a result, there is a platform where IT and near-topic topics are discussed, where the discussion is (relatively) politely and on business.
There are dissatisfied. People want to talk with the audience, express their opinion, but the “greens” kill good impulses with minuses. Often also without explanation. Colleagues, I sympathize, but there will be no explanation. Not because you are second-class people, it's just that simple. And the mechanism of karma will not change: as described above, for functioning it should be as simple as possible.
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To begin with, Habr is (about) a technical resource that positions itself as "polite." Insults and ignorance are not welcome here, and this is indicated in the rules of the site. As a result, politics is banned - from it it is very easy to pass on to individuals in an impolite manner.
The basis of the Habr fundamentals is posts. Under many there are valuable comments, sometimes even more valuable than the post. The time of the "active" life of most posts is two to three days. Then the discussion calms down, and the post is opened either from bookmarks, or by issuing Google.
Authors should be motivated to write posts. There are several options.
- Money. This is the editors, possibly streaming translators.
- Prof-order. Mostly articles on corporate blogs.
- Personality. I would like to share something important (or interesting), structure my own knowledge, and show myself in front of a conditional future employer.
Readers go to Habr for 3 things:
- Learn something new \ interesting (new posts).
- Find out something specific (bookmarks or Google search results)
- Communication.
Administration understands its resource. The administration also wants to earn money from him. And this is honest, because the administration invests money and time in the development of Habr. Actually, the purely financial goals of the administration are simple: to stimulate views, minimize costs.
Views are determined by the number of posts and comments (by the number of hubs - now two people can see completely different posts on the Habré). The quality of posts may be average, because the competition is low. Frank g ** but not welcome, because it scares away the audience. One of the mechanisms to minimize costs is karma.
Administration (partially) transfers responsibility for moderation to users. Users can tell the administration: this comrade generates excellent things, but this one drives fierce game with the mention of Putin and Trump.
Transfer of responsibility is not the easiest process. You need to find the right person, you need to take feedback from him, and you need to do all this automatically. A hundred thousand users - this is not something that can be raked by hand.
In the end, we have karma. It is assumed that the carriers of positive karma honor the rules and will identify violators. It is assumed that the carriers of positive karma are (about) people technical, and will identify their own kind. Roughly speaking, polite (about) techies will mark greens of their own kind and stoke red snappers or “humanists” in red.
The administration recognizes the "greens" as true techies, and they are moderating. The Reds, on the other hand, generate messages that run counter to the needs of Central Asia - and their UFOs are taken away to TuGNeSveS.
Just in case, the administration sets an additional “exam for professional suitability”: a requirement to write an article. This will kill 2 birds with one stone (actually more): the content is generated, and "green" shows that he is really a techie, faithful to the principles of the site .
The whole mechanism works in automatic mode. The mechanism is as simple as possible , otherwise the "green" will be filon. The mechanism makes mistakes - but this is acceptable. The mechanism is cheap. As a result, there is a platform where IT and near-topic topics are discussed, where the discussion is (relatively) politely and on business.
There are dissatisfied. People want to talk with the audience, express their opinion, but the “greens” kill good impulses with minuses. Often also without explanation. Colleagues, I sympathize, but there will be no explanation. Not because you are second-class people, it's just that simple. And the mechanism of karma will not change: as described above, for functioning it should be as simple as possible.
PS Poll added
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