Personally I try to leave a comment explaining my vote in such cases, as many voters don’t. If someone worked to post something and it’s not the kind of thing I want to see on LessWrong, the only way the author is likely to know what I and others here would like to see is to explain it, as the vote on the post is low bandwidth and only kind of useful as a feedback signal if a person posts a lot.
I’m still likely to downvote if I think a post is really bad, even if it has gone negative, although sometimes I refrain and just leave my comment about how I think the post could be better.
Sadly I don’t have time to do this for all such posts and I end up ignoring most of them.
Personally I try to leave a comment explaining my vote in such cases, as many voters don’t. If someone worked to post something and it’s not the kind of thing I want to see on LessWrong, the only way the author is likely to know what I and others here would like to see is to explain it, as the vote on the post is low bandwidth and only kind of useful as a feedback signal if a person posts a lot.
I’m still likely to downvote if I think a post is really bad, even if it has gone negative, although sometimes I refrain and just leave my comment about how I think the post could be better.
Sadly I don’t have time to do this for all such posts and I end up ignoring most of them.