Due to changes in how karma is computed introduced with LW2, we can’t compare our karma metric backwards in time. Fortunately, the number of votes is a good proxy.
I’m not sure about this. At least for me personally, I feel like voting is more costly on LW2 than on LW1, and I probably vote substantially less as a result. (Not totally sure because I haven’t kept statistics on my own voting behavior.) The reasons are:
Having to decide between strong vs weak vote.
Having a high enough karma that my vote strengths (3 for weak and 10 for strong) are pretty identifiable, so I have to think more about social implications. (Maybe I shouldn’t, but I do.)
Sometimes I’m uncomfortable voting something up or down by at least 3 points because I’m not sure of my judgement of its quality.
Hmm, on second thought the number of people in my position is probably small enough that this isn’t likely to significantly affect your “number of votes” comparison. I’ll leave this here anyway as general feedback on the voting system. (To be clear I’m not advocating to change the current system, just offering a data point.)
Another thing I’ve been wondering about is, there’s generally less voting per post/comment on LW2 than on LW1, but the karma on comparable posts seems more similar. Could it be that people have inherited their sense of how much karma different kinds of posts/comments “deserve” from LW1 and tend to stop voting up a post once it reaches that amount, which would result in similar karma but fewer votes?
Having a high enough karma that my vote strengths (3 for weak and 10 for strong) are pretty identifiable, so I have to think more about social implications.
I think the other comments show that you are not that identifiable.
Having to decide between strong vs weak vote.
Just always do the weak vote and don’t think about it.
To offer another data point, my vote weights are also 3 / 10, and it hasn’t occurred to me to think about these things. I just treat my “3” as a “1″, and usually only strong-upvote if I get a clear feeling of “oh wow, I want to reward this extra hard” (i.e. my rule is something like “if I feel any uncertainty about whether this would deserve a strong upvote, then it doesn’t”).
Having a high enough karma that my vote strengths (3 for weak and 10 for strong) are pretty identifiable, so I have to think more about social implications. (Maybe I shouldn’t, but I do.)
Hmm, I was starting to notice that a bit myself, and I think this is especially strong the more vote weight you have, which is an incentive counter to the very point of weighted voting. One option is to obscure some karma things a little to avoid this.
FWIW I don’t have this effect (and am also at 3⁄10). But I think I was also always in the “if I like something at 50, I will upvote it anyway” camp instead of in the “I think this should have a karma of 40, and since it’s at 50, I don’t need to upvote it” camp.
I’m not sure about this. At least for me personally, I feel like voting is more costly on LW2 than on LW1, and I probably vote substantially less as a result. (Not totally sure because I haven’t kept statistics on my own voting behavior.) The reasons are:
Having to decide between strong vs weak vote.
Having a high enough karma that my vote strengths (3 for weak and 10 for strong) are pretty identifiable, so I have to think more about social implications. (Maybe I shouldn’t, but I do.)
Sometimes I’m uncomfortable voting something up or down by at least 3 points because I’m not sure of my judgement of its quality.
Hmm, on second thought the number of people in my position is probably small enough that this isn’t likely to significantly affect your “number of votes” comparison. I’ll leave this here anyway as general feedback on the voting system. (To be clear I’m not advocating to change the current system, just offering a data point.)
Another thing I’ve been wondering about is, there’s generally less voting per post/comment on LW2 than on LW1, but the karma on comparable posts seems more similar. Could it be that people have inherited their sense of how much karma different kinds of posts/comments “deserve” from LW1 and tend to stop voting up a post once it reaches that amount, which would result in similar karma but fewer votes?
I think the other comments show that you are not that identifiable.
Just always do the weak vote and don’t think about it.
To offer another data point, my vote weights are also 3 / 10, and it hasn’t occurred to me to think about these things. I just treat my “3” as a “1″, and usually only strong-upvote if I get a clear feeling of “oh wow, I want to reward this extra hard” (i.e. my rule is something like “if I feel any uncertainty about whether this would deserve a strong upvote, then it doesn’t”).
Hmm, I was starting to notice that a bit myself, and I think this is especially strong the more vote weight you have, which is an incentive counter to the very point of weighted voting. One option is to obscure some karma things a little to avoid this.
FWIW I don’t have this effect (and am also at 3⁄10). But I think I was also always in the “if I like something at 50, I will upvote it anyway” camp instead of in the “I think this should have a karma of 40, and since it’s at 50, I don’t need to upvote it” camp.