We downvote bad jokes now?
As one of the downvoters, haven’t we always downvoted bad jokes?
This was a bad joke, not in the sense of inappropriateness (a similar but better joke at http://lesswrong.com/lw/ams/harry_potter_and_the_methods_of_rationality/61ew was heavily upvoted), but in the sense of being strained, weak, and largely unfunny.
Thank you, by the way.
Somehow I haven’t seen that happen in the ~3 months I’ve been here.
I’ll take your word for it, though.
I’ve been here since the beginning, and yes, good jokes get upvoted, bad jokes get downvoted. ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are of course highly subjective.
Things with negative karma get downvoted even more. You hadn’t noticed?
Edit: perhaps not. It actually took longer to go from −2 to −3 than 0 to −2. I think we need more data points.
As one of the downvoters, haven’t we always downvoted bad jokes?
This was a bad joke, not in the sense of inappropriateness (a similar but better joke at http://lesswrong.com/lw/ams/harry_potter_and_the_methods_of_rationality/61ew was heavily upvoted), but in the sense of being strained, weak, and largely unfunny.
Thank you, by the way.
Somehow I haven’t seen that happen in the ~3 months I’ve been here.
I’ll take your word for it, though.
I’ve been here since the beginning, and yes, good jokes get upvoted, bad jokes get downvoted. ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are of course highly subjective.
Things with negative karma get downvoted even more. You hadn’t noticed?
Edit: perhaps not. It actually took longer to go from −2 to −3 than 0 to −2. I think we need more data points.