Luke. Do you realize for what kind of trivial stuff EY gets downvoted down to like below −10?
People adjust their expectations accordingly in order to, the charitable explanation goes, preserve the signalling value of karma as a low investment form of feedback for your comments, or as the less charitable goes, raise their expectations to an insane level.
You have the third highest karma score on the site. You acquired this position very rapidly and are very prolific, probably everyone knows your user handle, while for example I still didn’t know most of the people on the top 10 list for like a year after I started reading.
Take it as a compliment.
Sit down and pour yourself a glass of your favourite beverage and smile when something that gets most people a 0 or 1 gets you a −1 and something that gets others a −1 or −2 will get you −5. Also remember it is bad signalling to ask “why am I donwovted?” when you have several 10k karma, it dosen’t make sense, but people respond better at that point if you ask basically the same thing without using the word “vote” and its variants or “karma”. :)
Karma isn’t the point. As you’ve said, I’m not lacking in karma. The point is to improve the success of my communication by learning in detail what kinds of things set some people off.
Which, now that I think about it, is something I could have included in my original comment asking why the comment above it was downvoted.
What in the above comment is worth downvoting? All I say here is: “Here’s what I’m still confused about; could you clarify?”
Luke. Do you realize for what kind of trivial stuff EY gets downvoted down to like below −10?
People adjust their expectations accordingly in order to, the charitable explanation goes, preserve the signalling value of karma as a low investment form of feedback for your comments, or as the less charitable goes, raise their expectations to an insane level.
You have the third highest karma score on the site. You acquired this position very rapidly and are very prolific, probably everyone knows your user handle, while for example I still didn’t know most of the people on the top 10 list for like a year after I started reading.
Take it as a compliment.
Sit down and pour yourself a glass of your favourite beverage and smile when something that gets most people a 0 or 1 gets you a −1 and something that gets others a −1 or −2 will get you −5. Also remember it is bad signalling to ask “why am I donwovted?” when you have several 10k karma, it dosen’t make sense, but people respond better at that point if you ask basically the same thing without using the word “vote” and its variants or “karma”. :)
Karma isn’t the point. As you’ve said, I’m not lacking in karma. The point is to improve the success of my communication by learning in detail what kinds of things set some people off.
Which, now that I think about it, is something I could have included in my original comment asking why the comment above it was downvoted.