(also, lol at this being voted into negative! Giving karma as encouragement seems like a great thing. It’s the whole point of it. It’s even a venerable LW tradition, and was how people incentivised participation in the annual community surveys in the elden days)
The LW survey is something that has broad buy-in. In-general promising to upvote others distorts the upvote signal (since like, people could very easily manufacture lots of karma by just upvoting each others), so there is a prior against this kind of stuff that sometimes can be overcome.
If anyone signed up to Community Notes because of this post, feel free to comment below and I’ll give you upvote karma :) (not agreement karma)
(also, lol at this being voted into negative! Giving karma as encouragement seems like a great thing. It’s the whole point of it. It’s even a venerable LW tradition, and was how people incentivised participation in the annual community surveys in the elden days)
The LW survey is something that has broad buy-in. In-general promising to upvote others distorts the upvote signal (since like, people could very easily manufacture lots of karma by just upvoting each others), so there is a prior against this kind of stuff that sometimes can be overcome.