upvote what I want more of, and downvote what I want less of
avoid voting on technical material I don’t think I can adequately judge
but I never noticed the tension between those two heuristics before. In practice I guess I prioritize #2. If I can’t (or can’t be bothered to) check over a technical comment, I usually don’t vote on it, however much I (dis)like it.
Well, it makes some sense to not vote if you genuinely don’t know whether you want more comments like that one (e.g. “I do if it’s accurate, I don’t if it isn’t, I don’t know which is true”)
Huh, interesting. I’d already noticed I try to
upvote what I want more of, and downvote what I want less of
avoid voting on technical material I don’t think I can adequately judge
but I never noticed the tension between those two heuristics before. In practice I guess I prioritize #2. If I can’t (or can’t be bothered to) check over a technical comment, I usually don’t vote on it, however much I (dis)like it.
Well, it makes some sense to not vote if you genuinely don’t know whether you want more comments like that one (e.g. “I do if it’s accurate, I don’t if it isn’t, I don’t know which is true”)