it’s a workaround for a broken downvote system. “don’t like my post, legit. please be aware the downvote system will ban me if I get heavily downvoted”.
Can you clarify what part of the downvote system is broken? If someone posts multiple things that get voted below zero, that indicates to me that most voters don’t want to see more of that on LW. Are you saying it means something else?
I do wish there were agreement indicators on top-level posts, so it could be much clearer to remind people “voting is about whether you think this is good to see on LW, agreement is about the specific arguments”. But even absent that, I don’t see very much below-zero post scores that surprise me or I think are strongly incorrect. If I did, I somewhat expect the mods would override a throttle.
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.
it’s a workaround for a broken downvote system. “don’t like my post, legit. please be aware the downvote system will ban me if I get heavily downvoted”.
Can you clarify what part of the downvote system is broken? If someone posts multiple things that get voted below zero, that indicates to me that most voters don’t want to see more of that on LW. Are you saying it means something else?
I do wish there were agreement indicators on top-level posts, so it could be much clearer to remind people “voting is about whether you think this is good to see on LW, agreement is about the specific arguments”. But even absent that, I don’t see very much below-zero post scores that surprise me or I think are strongly incorrect. If I did, I somewhat expect the mods would override a throttle.
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.
What you see as a broken system, I see as a system working exactly as intended.
Should we keep any nonsense on LW front page just because the author asked us nicely?