I am skeptical that you would be more likely to leave if someone told you “I am downvoting you to get you to leave”. So if someone wants to drive you out for holding the wrong opinions, telling you why he gave it to you will not, in fact, improve its effectiveness.
Yes, that’s true. I was thinking of people who were downvoting in the hope of improving the content they see on LW rather than to get rid of me personally. But I would expect people aiming for the latter to be in the “seeing me as a sociopolitical enemy” category, and those weren’t the people I was addressing.
I am skeptical that you would be more likely to leave if someone told you “I am downvoting you to get you to leave”. So if someone wants to drive you out for holding the wrong opinions, telling you why he gave it to you will not, in fact, improve its effectiveness.
Yes, that’s true. I was thinking of people who were downvoting in the hope of improving the content they see on LW rather than to get rid of me personally. But I would expect people aiming for the latter to be in the “seeing me as a sociopolitical enemy” category, and those weren’t the people I was addressing.