I watched the karma total flip up and down. The Nash equilibrium is to strong downvote because after the comment has a low karma total, social consensus becomes that I’m being totally ironic about my appreciation of Jeff’s scholarship.
My interpretation was that the downvotes were people not liking seeing generic reply gifs here, especially for something we have a specific interface for (voting), while the agreevotes were for the content of the gif?
That was mostly what it was, but before it got downvoted significantly I watched two factions fight about it for a little bit, until they stopped fighting
I watched the karma total flip up and down. The Nash equilibrium is to strong downvote because after the comment has a low karma total, social consensus becomes that I’m being totally ironic about my appreciation of Jeff’s scholarship.
My interpretation was that the downvotes were people not liking seeing generic reply gifs here, especially for something we have a specific interface for (voting), while the agreevotes were for the content of the gif?
Yup. I’m one such person who downvoted because I don’t want people to reply with gif-memes, and agree-voted because I agreed with it.
That was mostly what it was, but before it got downvoted significantly I watched two factions fight about it for a little bit, until they stopped fighting