I am curious now about the interaction between downvoting a comment and replying to it.
I have a personal policy of either replying to a comment or downvoting it, not both. The rationale is that downvoting is a message and if I’m bothering to reply, I can provide a better message and the vote is not needed. I am not terribly interested in karma, especially karma of other people. Occasionally I make exceptions to this policy, though.
I make rare exceptions. About the only time I do it is when I notice my opponent is doing it. (Not because I care they’re doing it to me or about karma, but I regard it as a moral imperative to defect against defectors, and if they care about karma enough to try it against me, I’m going to retaliate on the grounds that it will probably hurt them as much as they hoped it would hurt me.)
I have a personal policy of either replying to a comment or downvoting it, not both. The rationale is that downvoting is a message and if I’m bothering to reply, I can provide a better message and the vote is not needed. I am not terribly interested in karma, especially karma of other people. Occasionally I make exceptions to this policy, though.
I make rare exceptions. About the only time I do it is when I notice my opponent is doing it. (Not because I care they’re doing it to me or about karma, but I regard it as a moral imperative to defect against defectors, and if they care about karma enough to try it against me, I’m going to retaliate on the grounds that it will probably hurt them as much as they hoped it would hurt me.)