Upvote if you generally no longer post or discuss opinions that disagree with LW consensus.
Feel free to leave a comment on your experiences and reasons for this.
(If you would like to downvote this poll, please downvote the karma balance below instead, so that we can still get an accurate idea of the number of people who have this reaction.)
This poll is poorly designed; karma balances often get downvoted less than the vote options get upvoted, so this will tend to over-estimate how many people no longer dissent.
For example, when I loaded this page, this comment was at 5 and the karma balance was at −3
karma balances often get downvoted less than the vote options get upvoted, so this will tend to over-estimate how many people no longer dissent.
To me, when a karma balance is downvoted less than poll options are upvoted, it means that people think running the poll deserves some karma. This does not overestimate people who have reacted to voting patterns, since that number does not come from the karma balance. If someone (who has NOT reacted to voting patterns) wants to give karma for running the poll, they would upvote the karma balance, not the voting comment
Also, the purpose of the poll is to see whether a relatively high or relatively low amount of people have reacted to the voting patterns this way. Exact numbers are not needed.
I have a proposal for a new structure for poll options:
The top-level post is just a statement of the idea, and voting has nothing to do with the poll. This can be omitted if the poll is an article.
A reply to this post is a “positive karma balance”—it should get no downvotes, and its score should be equal to the number of participants in the poll.
Two replies to the “positive karma balance” post, you downvote one to select this option in the poll.
This way voting either way in the poll has the same cost (one downvote), the enclosing post will have a high score (keeping it from being lost), and the only way to “corrupt” the poll results without leaving a trace [downvote the count post and upvote one of the option posts] simply cancels someone’s vote without allowing you to make your own.
Upvote if you generally no longer post or discuss opinions that disagree with LW consensus.
Feel free to leave a comment on your experiences and reasons for this.
(If you would like to downvote this poll, please downvote the karma balance below instead, so that we can still get an accurate idea of the number of people who have this reaction.)
(consensus)
And what do you mean “no longer”? Is the idea “upvote if your contrarianism has been downvoted out of you”, or what?
silly typos. fixed, thanks!
I’m curious, do you? If you do, why?
This poll is poorly designed; karma balances often get downvoted less than the vote options get upvoted, so this will tend to over-estimate how many people no longer dissent.
For example, when I loaded this page, this comment was at 5 and the karma balance was at −3
To me, when a karma balance is downvoted less than poll options are upvoted, it means that people think running the poll deserves some karma. This does not overestimate people who have reacted to voting patterns, since that number does not come from the karma balance. If someone (who has NOT reacted to voting patterns) wants to give karma for running the poll, they would upvote the karma balance, not the voting comment
Also, the purpose of the poll is to see whether a relatively high or relatively low amount of people have reacted to the voting patterns this way. Exact numbers are not needed.
I have a proposal for a new structure for poll options:
The top-level post is just a statement of the idea, and voting has nothing to do with the poll. This can be omitted if the poll is an article.
A reply to this post is a “positive karma balance”—it should get no downvotes, and its score should be equal to the number of participants in the poll.
Two replies to the “positive karma balance” post, you downvote one to select this option in the poll.
This way voting either way in the poll has the same cost (one downvote), the enclosing post will have a high score (keeping it from being lost), and the only way to “corrupt” the poll results without leaving a trace [downvote the count post and upvote one of the option posts] simply cancels someone’s vote without allowing you to make your own.
Or just embed a poll.
Nitpick—that should be the LW consensus, not LW census.
Karma balance
(or downvote this, if you don’t like the idea of this poll)