Since posting it on my profile, my karma has uniformly risen when I log in. Hypothesis: people are moderating their down-karma-ing because they may think they’ve fallen for a bit of bait to expose their irrationality to me and the wider community
I predict that this isn’t what is happening. I think it is either
I don’t think it’s that the community got used to your mental illness posts, it’s that the lack of focus and high quantity got on people’s nerves. Now that you aren’t doing that, you aren’t getting as much negative karma.
While I’m hoping that no one posts in the future with so much lack of focus, I think that if someone does, they will get at least as much negative karma.
It’s also possible that people’s perception of the landscape itself changed over time as Clarity posts often and has been here a while now. That, and if any votes were from Eugene’s downvote brigades, then their removal would have helped. (I’m at 85% karma and i think almost all of the negative votes were from Eugene’s accounts.)
Thanks for the writeup.
I predict that this isn’t what is happening. I think it is either
people adjusting to you
you subconsciously adjusting to the community
or both.
I don’t think it’s that the community got used to your mental illness posts, it’s that the lack of focus and high quantity got on people’s nerves. Now that you aren’t doing that, you aren’t getting as much negative karma.
While I’m hoping that no one posts in the future with so much lack of focus, I think that if someone does, they will get at least as much negative karma.
It’s also possible that people’s perception of the landscape itself changed over time as Clarity posts often and has been here a while now. That, and if any votes were from Eugene’s downvote brigades, then their removal would have helped. (I’m at 85% karma and i think almost all of the negative votes were from Eugene’s accounts.)
Fair points, thanks