That seems like weak evidence of karma info-cascades: posts with more karma get more upvotes *simply because* they have more karma, in a way which ultimately doesn’t correlate with their “true value” (as measured by the review process).
Potential mediating causes include users being anchored by karma, or more karma causing a larger share of the attention of the userbase (due to various sorting algorithms).
It was 1st June 2018 that we built strong/weak upvotes—before then you had to always vote your max strength. I could imagine that being responsible for the apparent info-cascades in very popular post.
If voters are at all consistent, you’d expect at lease some positive correlation because the same factors that made them upvote for karma also made upvote for the Review.
Beyond that, I’m guessing people voted for the posts they’d read, and people would have read higher karma posts more often since they get more exposure, e.g. sticking around the Latest Posts list for longer.
That seems like weak evidence of karma info-cascades: posts with more karma get more upvotes *simply because* they have more karma, in a way which ultimately doesn’t correlate with their “true value” (as measured by the review process).
Potential mediating causes include users being anchored by karma, or more karma causing a larger share of the attention of the userbase (due to various sorting algorithms).
It was 1st June 2018 that we built strong/weak upvotes—before then you had to always vote your max strength. I could imagine that being responsible for the apparent info-cascades in very popular post.
If voters are at all consistent, you’d expect at lease some positive correlation because the same factors that made them upvote for karma also made upvote for the Review.
Beyond that, I’m guessing people voted for the posts they’d read, and people would have read higher karma posts more often since they get more exposure, e.g. sticking around the Latest Posts list for longer.