edit #2: the title I was commenting on has been removed. I’d encourage others to reconsider their downvote.
Please chill about downvotes. If you edit the title back, you are likely to on net get upvoted. I had just upvoted when you changed it. Give it time to settle before you get doom and gloom about it.
edit: the title was originally something like “an alignment comic”. OP is trying to throw away a perfectly good post that, in my estimation, wasn’t even previously going to settle on a negative score, just was briefly negative.
I changed the title back (from “Downvote this”) and removed the first sentence (which complained about downvotes), since it seems like it changed people’s voting behavior a lot in a confusing way. My best guess is this post would actually be pretty popular with its original title (and I also upvoted it).
Seconding this. A nonobvious quirk of the system where high-karma users get more vote weight is that it increases variance for posts with few votes: if a high-karma user or two who don’t like you see your post first, they can trash the initial score in a way that doesn’t reflect “the community’s” consensus. I remember the early karma scores for one of my posts going from 20 to zero (!). It eventually finished at 131.
I’ve also noticed this phenomenon. I wonder if a solution would be to have an initial period where votes are considered more democratically, and then after that period the influence of high-karma users are applied (including back applying the influence of votes that occured during the intial period). I can also imagine downsides to this.
edit #2: the title I was commenting on has been removed. I’d encourage others to reconsider their downvote.
Please chill about downvotes. If you edit the title back, you are likely to on net get upvoted. I had just upvoted when you changed it. Give it time to settle before you get doom and gloom about it.edit: the title was originally something like “an alignment comic”. OP is trying to throw away a perfectly good post that, in my estimation, wasn’t even previously going to settle on a negative score, just was briefly negative.I changed the title back (from “Downvote this”) and removed the first sentence (which complained about downvotes), since it seems like it changed people’s voting behavior a lot in a confusing way. My best guess is this post would actually be pretty popular with its original title (and I also upvoted it).
Good job. Thank you and have a nice week.
Seconding this. A nonobvious quirk of the system where high-karma users get more vote weight is that it increases variance for posts with few votes: if a high-karma user or two who don’t like you see your post first, they can trash the initial score in a way that doesn’t reflect “the community’s” consensus. I remember the early karma scores for one of my posts going from 20 to zero (!). It eventually finished at 131.
I’ve also noticed this phenomenon. I wonder if a solution would be to have an initial period where votes are considered more democratically, and then after that period the influence of high-karma users are applied (including back applying the influence of votes that occured during the intial period). I can also imagine downsides to this.