I think this is particularly hard with posts, after the first few votes (esp. once someone has strong upvoted it). But I think it’s easier with comments if you’re paying attention, esp. if you see that your karma is fairly low but has a largish number of votes.
Yeah, I comment far more than I post, and I have a general idea that if I get no downvotes, it means I’m optimizing too much for approval rather than exploration of non-obvious ideas. The vote-delta feature makes it a little easier to see the downvotes (I’ve disabled the hiding of negatives), but mostly I have to look and figure out if the average votes-per-voter is particularly low.
I think this is particularly hard with posts, after the first few votes (esp. once someone has strong upvoted it). But I think it’s easier with comments if you’re paying attention, esp. if you see that your karma is fairly low but has a largish number of votes.
Yeah, I comment far more than I post, and I have a general idea that if I get no downvotes, it means I’m optimizing too much for approval rather than exploration of non-obvious ideas. The vote-delta feature makes it a little easier to see the downvotes (I’ve disabled the hiding of negatives), but mostly I have to look and figure out if the average votes-per-voter is particularly low.
An interesting feature would be to show the ratio instead of only the vote count in addition to the score.