Current Situation

Recently CCIP-033 has been introduced, allowing users to mark their posts as SERIOUS discussions. This proposal passed with a significant vote, indicating that users do what to see more serious content in the sub.

Problem

While there have been a few posts marked as serious, it’s not all that often they make their way to the front page - some users simply ignore the serious posts because they can’t make a joke comment for their own karma farming.

Solution

I propose to increase the Karma Multiplier for SERIOUS posts to 2x, not only to encourage more posts of higher quality content, but to also give more weight to posts that result in more thought provoking discussions.

This proposal will not impact karma for comments within the serious post, and other multipliers for the post still apply.

While posts might potentially earn more karma, if they truly are a hot topic, they will likely reach the karma-cap anyway - realistically this proposal will only provide more weight of karma to some serious posts that get overlooked.

This shouldn’t impact the general content of the sub because not everyone will want to create serious posts, however this could result in a few extra high quality content to hit the front page, which would be a win for the community for both old and new members.

Pro: Users who post serious content might potentially earn more karma and more serious discussions might take place

Con: Users might try to abuse the system by unnecessarily marking posts as serious

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