How do you plan to stop the inevitable evolution of the delta into the "super-upvote" that ultimately becomes meaningless?

If I could make a suggestion: ration the power to delta. One a week? One every 3 days? Something that makes it a little more precious, and do not let it accumulate. Instead, reset the timer whenever you choose to award a delta, so you have to wait it out until you can delta again.

Or maybe, if somehow possible, make your delta worth more or less depending on the frequency at which you tend award deltas.

Either way, do something to reduce delta spamming because the post hit the right feels. Yes, TRP is very vunerable to "feels" posts; the feels are just generally not the normal, PC type.

Cool idea though.

Will we use a system similar to CM where comments rewarding deltas are required to explain specifically what made them valuable?

Can I exchange it for misc reps?

It's funny, I was recently thinking to myself "if only Reddit had a way to assign points to posts. Some sort of up vote/downvote system."

Missed a golden opportunity here for comedy trolling other subs thinking it's serious. Rather than ∆ it could have been an α.

Too bad the \α symbol isn't obviously an alpha.

Then do \β (β) for bad responses.

this is a great idea because people need to know my opinions!

You could make it so that if a person is able to edit the Wiki, where you need to have a certain amount of karma in the subreddit, then they can award ∆.

That will keep flocks of bystanders from throwing ∆s around.

fuck u bot

Aww, all my best posts were before i could get imaginary points for posting the truth!

Wait a minute...

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Wow. There's no way im going to remember how to do that. Maybe make it simpler?

Yeah, just be sure to post "∆" somewhere where we can see because there's no way I can memorize that delta code.

Can the bot auto-delete the delta posts after processing them? Or do we have to sift through delta spam to read actual comments?

Here's a harebrained idea - use a PageRank-like trust based system where the delta's from "trusted" users hold more weight than a delta from a less trusted user. Initial trust weights can be seeded by mod/endorsed contributors, or simply computed after a period of time based on how many deltas a user receives. Trust scores can be updated on daily, or even a weekly basis. I'm going to guesstimate that there are just several thousand unique posters per month on the subreddit, so trust scores would still definitely be computable on a single machine.

/u/TheOpposingView raises a super valid point about controlling for frequency as well. Each individual delta can still easily be further weighted by frequency under this system.