why is the karma of the top 10 not listed on that page along with the others? Se...

tptacek · on July 31, 2022

It may have been a compromise from my request that we replace numeric karma scores with something like "lots" after some threshold.

jdthedisciple · on July 31, 2022

why would you want to do that? genuinely curious

kergonath · on July 31, 2022

Not the OP, but I see 2 reasons:

- avoid a competition that encourages people to just farm karma, which adds noise;

- avoid a kind of argument from authority, where some people get more influence than their points deserve just because they are high on the table.

tptacek · on July 31, 2022

Because high karma scores are mostly just embarrassing.

ayewo · on July 31, 2022

Karma scores used to be visible next to each username in the leaderboard.

Somewhere down the line, I believe dang hid it, but I forget the reason why.

jb1991 · on July 31, 2022

it's odd because all you have to do is click on the name to see the karma, so why not just list it along with the other 90 names and scores visibly shown on the page?