If you didn’t think it was a helpful post, I’m fine with you downvoting it, but I don’t think you should be downvoting posts on people’s personal blog just because you don’t like politics. My understanding was that politics was fine, but not on the front page. If you don’t want politics on people’s blogs I would suggest posting on meta arguing against people posting politics on their blogs or contacting the mods directly.
I think this is an understandable position, but it seems to me that most active users are looking at the daily posts, and the front page isn’t particularly priveleged. I don’t think there are any firm norms about politics at the moment either, only the aggregate of peoples’ opinions.
Well, if you’re downvoting all political posts, maybe I should upvote all non-frontpage political posts to counter this? All I’m saying is that a discussion on meta seems to be a better way of handling this than a upvote/downvote war.
If you didn’t think it was a helpful post, I’m fine with you downvoting it, but I don’t think you should be downvoting posts on people’s personal blog just because you don’t like politics. My understanding was that politics was fine, but not on the front page. If you don’t want politics on people’s blogs I would suggest posting on meta arguing against people posting politics on their blogs or contacting the mods directly.
I think this is an understandable position, but it seems to me that most active users are looking at the daily posts, and the front page isn’t particularly priveleged. I don’t think there are any firm norms about politics at the moment either, only the aggregate of peoples’ opinions.
Well, if you’re downvoting all political posts, maybe I should upvote all non-frontpage political posts to counter this? All I’m saying is that a discussion on meta seems to be a better way of handling this than a upvote/downvote war.
Posts on the frontpage get about a factor of ~2x more views (eyeballing from our internal view numbers), and posts in curated get about 5x more views.
Is that controlled for the number of upvotes?
Neat, thanks!