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This is the post-scarcity economy. Right now. Except that brain cycles are still scarce Information abounds. Attention does not. And who do we pay attention to when everyone is giving information for free?
Effectively, this bizarre... article?... proposes that we apply karma weighting system where the more a user up-mods, the less each up-mod from that user is worth.
As blatantly flawed as the above summary sounds, the article generated some interesting thinking for me, particularly the contrast of the ranking mechanisms available to Twitter and Hacker News; you can change ranking mechanisms significantly by changing the structure of the content.