I once got quite upset when someone posted something anti-trans. because I wrote an angry reply, I got heavily downvoted. as a result, I was only able to post once a day for several months, heavily limiting my ability to contribute. perhaps this is the intended outcome of the system; but I think there ought to be a better curve than that. perhaps directly related to time, rather than number of posts—I had to make an effort to make a trivial post regularly so I’d be able to make a spurt of specific posts when I had something I wanted to comment on.
Yeah, I can see how a single highly-downvoted bad comment can outweigh a lot of low-positive good comments. I do wish there were a way to reset the limit in the cases where a poster acknowledges the problem and agrees they won’t do it again (in at least the near-term). Or perhaps a more complex algorithm that counts posts/comments rather than just votes.
And I’ve long been of the opinion that strong votes are harmful, in many ways.
I once got quite upset when someone posted something anti-trans. because I wrote an angry reply, I got heavily downvoted. as a result, I was only able to post once a day for several months, heavily limiting my ability to contribute. perhaps this is the intended outcome of the system; but I think there ought to be a better curve than that. perhaps directly related to time, rather than number of posts—I had to make an effort to make a trivial post regularly so I’d be able to make a spurt of specific posts when I had something I wanted to comment on.
Yeah, I can see how a single highly-downvoted bad comment can outweigh a lot of low-positive good comments. I do wish there were a way to reset the limit in the cases where a poster acknowledges the problem and agrees they won’t do it again (in at least the near-term). Or perhaps a more complex algorithm that counts posts/comments rather than just votes.
And I’ve long been of the opinion that strong votes are harmful, in many ways.
Agree that it should be time-based rather than karma-based.
I’m currently on a very heavy rate limit that I think is being manually adjusted by the LessWrong team.