This is a strange pattern. Your post is massively downvoted, and every one of your comments on it are massively upvoted; enough to make the post a large net karma gain.
I’m not sure if that means the post and comments taken as a whole are something LW wants, or whether perhaps there was a better way to get the insights in your comments into the post itself.
Both of those seem like plausible inferences given your observation. I also take it as evidence that LW’s standards of evaluation for posts are very different than for comments.
That said, I suspect your observation is wrong. Given that each vote on a post is worth 10 karma, the post + comments is still a significant net karma loss at the time that I write this.
Last night it was down as low as −8. Currently it’s at −2, which puts me back in net karma gain territory. I suspect the main post will continue to be upvoted as more people have time to think about it.
The post is up to +3 now. Having been vindicated, I would like to hazard the further guess that some of the early downvotes were from people who understood the parable perfectly well, but found that the fox’s behavior was uncomfortably similar to their own and didn’t want to admit it.
Clearly there’s a time lag here—some people are downvoting the post quickly. Other people are upvoting the post because of the downvotes. And some other people are voting slowly. Apparently your post appeals differently to the two groups on the ends. Although if the middle group notices that the post is now positive, they might put you back in downvote-land.
This is a strange pattern. Your post is massively downvoted, and every one of your comments on it are massively upvoted; enough to make the post a large net karma gain.
I’m not sure if that means the post and comments taken as a whole are something LW wants, or whether perhaps there was a better way to get the insights in your comments into the post itself.
Both of those seem like plausible inferences given your observation.
I also take it as evidence that LW’s standards of evaluation for posts are very different than for comments.
That said, I suspect your observation is wrong. Given that each vote on a post is worth 10 karma, the post + comments is still a significant net karma loss at the time that I write this.
Last night it was down as low as −8. Currently it’s at −2, which puts me back in net karma gain territory. I suspect the main post will continue to be upvoted as more people have time to think about it.
The post is up to +3 now. Having been vindicated, I would like to hazard the further guess that some of the early downvotes were from people who understood the parable perfectly well, but found that the fox’s behavior was uncomfortably similar to their own and didn’t want to admit it.
Hm, upvoted, eh?
Clearly there’s a time lag here—some people are downvoting the post quickly. Other people are upvoting the post because of the downvotes. And some other people are voting slowly. Apparently your post appeals differently to the two groups on the ends. Although if the middle group notices that the post is now positive, they might put you back in downvote-land.