Why is this a problem for you?
I suppose if you use comment karma to evaluate how people like what you write, blank downvoting masks the useful signal.
Yes. A while ago I suddenly lost like 50 points (which is a lot for me). The signal that gives isn’t ‘don’t write stuff like this’, but ‘we don’t want you here, go away’, and I almost did.
But he knows the source of the karma drop, therefore the useful signal has been unmasked.
I suppose if you use comment karma to evaluate how people like what you write, blank downvoting masks the useful signal.
Yes. A while ago I suddenly lost like 50 points (which is a lot for me). The signal that gives isn’t ‘don’t write stuff like this’, but ‘we don’t want you here, go away’, and I almost did.
But he knows the source of the karma drop, therefore the useful signal has been unmasked.