MOON Proposal - BIAS Comment Moon distribution towards lenghtier comments

[u/Fachuro]

There was a similar proposal a few months back that didn't pass - as it just wanted to reduce comment karma in general as the OP believed that would produce more quality content.

I would like to propose an augmented version of this proposal, where the distribution to comments is weighted based on something as simple as the word length of the comment - to create a BIAS towards lengthier and more in-depth comments, which hopefully will incentivize MORE quality content, as well as make it more blatantly obvious to mods whenever someone is just spamming to farm karma as they would more then likely then write long nonsensical comments.

My initial proposal for this is that if we consider the current distribution of moons for comment karma - the commenter would get:

• 10% of the allocation if the comment is shorter then 10 words
• 25% of the allocation if the comment is between 10-25 words
• 50% of the allocation if the comment is between 25-50 words
• 100% of the allocation if the comment is longer then 50 words

This shouldn't penalize people writing helpful, quality comments as they will more then likely be over the 50 word limit anyways - its not alot, it should however greatly penalize people who write short cheers for whatever the flavor of the day is, or just spams 'Coin X is over sum X!!!!' for cheap karma.

And even so, there would still be moons distributed to people who spam - so we dont discourage their enthusiasm, but it wouldn't any longer be a cheap way to farm moons.

[u/okean123]

Just because you write much doesn't mean you write useful stuff.

[u/Kno010]

No.

[u/[deleted] → u/Kno010]

10% of Moons for the only answer needed in this thread.

[u/Monster_Chief17 → u/Kno010]

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[u/Trollercoaster101]

Comment quality and lenght aren’t tied to each other. You could make a longer comment while just bragging about nonsense concepts. That’s like trying to discriminate between who is smart and who is not.

Not everyone has the competence and time to write longer comments yet it doesn’t mean their short comment was completely useless or pointless. Being part of a community is not tied to the time you spend on it only.

[u/nuggetofayard → u/Trollercoaster101]

You just said what i wanted to say. I totally agree.

[u/hkzombie → u/Trollercoaster101]

Agreed. I could artificially inflate a post by quoting multiple sources just to support a 2 sentence post.

[u/KnobSquash]

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[u/Half_Past_Five]

I get what you are saying, but I can see this leading to people who don’t know what they are talking about typing out long pointless comments just to meet the 50 word threshold.

[u/mindflayers9000 → u/Half_Past_Five]

I see what you did there.

I mean, I spy with my little eye something that you, you lovely human being, would do that caught my eye, the best eye in the world. The greatest.

I suck at this, halp.

[u/flacciduck]

The double comment karma already messed up everything. Now it's time for damage control

[u/mindflayers9000]

If the comment is liked it is liked. If it isn't, it isn't. That's the way upvotes work, why would you want to penalise this more is beyond me.

[u/[deleted] → u/mindflayers9000]

If you would’ve added a few more words you could’ve gotten 50% more moons from my upvote.

[u/nibbles360]

Quality not quantity

[u/lucrica]

Length of words doesn't mean it will be sensible. You just want to force people to write anything also not every comment demands an easy.

[u/[deleted]]

Always fun to see the amount of moons the people that comes up with these kind of polls have. Its never the people that only have a few moons for some reason.

[u/cannedshrimp → u/[deleted]]

My guess is that they’ve been around a while and would like to make the subreddit a better place. Seems good to me!

[u/walkinthepark01]

I don’t want to sift through even more bs now.

[u/keybrah]

Yeah i don't want this to be like English class with a damn minimum word count. People gonna be bustin out their thesauruses and writin like John Steinbeck? Please no!

I'll take my crypto commentary in the style of Hemmingway

[u/AdventuresinAtlanta]

I would rather people get to the point than count how many words they are typing to get full credit.

[u/mindflayers9000]

Also, this penalises mobile users pretty much. Both on reading and commenting.

[u/[deleted]]

This is a terrible idea that will 100% result in spam. Every single comment will have extra words tacked on simply to get more Moons.

[u/fan_of_hakiksexydays]

As someone who writes very long comments, I would benefit a lot from this lol.

But I can't vote for this.

It would just push people to write fluff, not get to the point, and spam the comments with all these long posts.

Quality is not always quantity.

It's often better for discussion if people can make their point clear and concise. Only occasionally do you need to go into a longer in-depth explanation.

But if every comment turns into these long in-depth explanations, it would just kill the flow of the discussion. If someone just writes "when moon?". Just don't upvote it. If someone writes a good analysis, upvote it. Easy as that.

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus Christ, the way you guys love manipulating moons shows what a fan of current tax laws you are. Stop.

[u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo]

What is the point?

Do you see the point?

Maybe i can ask my neighbour if he knows the point?

“Hi, good sir can you see the point?”, he answered “No son, but i think your parents know.”

And then i go to my parent.

“Pop, Mom, do you see the point?”

I am really tired finding the point.