I have noticed that my posts go up in karma very quickly and than drop slowly. This post spiked at +7 and is now at +3. This happened on my last post as well, but the drop coincided with me commenting on the post. I decided to wait longer this time and see if the same pattern happened. It did. My theory is that I generally post in the afternoon and the afternoon readers vote me up. The evening readers then come through and vote me down. I personally wouldn’t consider this an experiment, but I guess I cannot deny that it is strange behavior.
Second, I spent significantly less time editing and tuning this post. I have very little invested in this post and don’t really care what happens to it. I didn’t know how to start this topic or say what I wanted to say without writing at least twice what I did here. As such, I didn’t really expect much in the comments. I am about to go through and reply to everything but I doubt the conversation will be that interesting.
FYI, I never posted a comment in Easy Predictor Tests.
I will make the prediction “if this post is some kind of experiment then the rating of this thread will reduce by at least 4 points within one day of the moment MrHen announces it”.
What’s especially odd about this post
is that MrHen hasn’t replied yet.
He always replies to all his comments, and has written comments elsewhere since posting this.
Do you think this is some kind of experiment?
If so, what’s the experiment?
I bided my time on this topic for two reasons:
I have noticed that my posts go up in karma very quickly and than drop slowly. This post spiked at +7 and is now at +3. This happened on my last post as well, but the drop coincided with me commenting on the post. I decided to wait longer this time and see if the same pattern happened. It did. My theory is that I generally post in the afternoon and the afternoon readers vote me up. The evening readers then come through and vote me down. I personally wouldn’t consider this an experiment, but I guess I cannot deny that it is strange behavior.
Second, I spent significantly less time editing and tuning this post. I have very little invested in this post and don’t really care what happens to it. I didn’t know how to start this topic or say what I wanted to say without writing at least twice what I did here. As such, I didn’t really expect much in the comments. I am about to go through and reply to everything but I doubt the conversation will be that interesting.
FYI, I never posted a comment in Easy Predictor Tests.
I see you’ve located the situation in your matrix.
I will make the prediction “if this post is some kind of experiment then the rating of this thread will reduce by at least 4 points within one day of the moment MrHen announces it”.
Eh, no conspiracies here. It’s just a lazy post.
EDIT: For historical reasons, when I started commenting, the post was at +3.