When it comes to being up- or down-voted its a real gamble. There are of course the same mechanism at play here just as on other social (media) platforms, i.e., there are certain individuals, trends and thought patterns that are hailed and praised and vice versa without any real justification. But hey, that is what makes us human, these unexplainable things called feelings.
PS perhaps a new hashtag on X would be appropriate #stopthedownvoting
Yeah I’m asking because downvotes are far too ambigious. I think they’re ambigious to the point that they don’t make for useful feedback (You can’t update a worldview for the better if you don’t know what’s wrong with it). I don’t think downvotes are necessarily bad as a concept though. And about humanity—sure, and on any other website I’d largely have agreed with your view, but when I talk about intellectual things I largely push my own humanity to the side. And even if somebody downvotes because of irrational feelings, I’m interested in what those feelings are.
But I know that people on here frequently value truth, and I’m quite brutal to those values as I think truth is about as valid of a concept as a semicolon (the language is just math/logic rather than English). And if we are to talk about Truth with a capital T, then we’re speaking about reality, which is more fundamental than language (the territory, reality, is important. But I rarely see any good maps, even on this website. So when taoists seem to suggest throwing the map away entirely, I do think that’s a good idea for every day life. It’s only for science, research and tech that I value maps). That makes me an outlier though, haha.
I didn’t downvote it, but didn’t upvote it either. This answer was posted after other answers that contained this answer as a subset, with deeper analysis.
That makes sense, I just evaluated the comment in isolation. But I believe that the first few downvotes were as “incorrect” (the red X) rather than regular downvotes (down arrow), which is why the feedback occured to me as simply mistaken (as the comment is not false).
I’ve noticed, by the way, that most comments posted tend to get downvoted initially and then return to 0 over time. There may be a few regular, highly active users with high standards or something, and less casual users with lower standards which balance them out over time. I’ve gone to −10 and back before.
I understood why you asked, I am also interested in general why people up or down vote something. I could be a really good information and food for thought.
Yeah, who doesn’t want capital T truth… But I have come to appreciate the subjective experience more and more. I like science and rational thinking, it has gotten us pretty far, but who am I the question someones experience. If someone met ‘the creator’ on an ayahuasca journey or think that love is the essence of universe, who am I to judge. When I see the statistics on the massive use of anti-depressants it is obvious to me that we can´t use rational and logical thinking to think our way out from our feelings. What are rationality and logical thinking good for if it in the end can’t make us feel good?
When it comes to being up- or down-voted its a real gamble. There are of course the same mechanism at play here just as on other social (media) platforms, i.e., there are certain individuals, trends and thought patterns that are hailed and praised and vice versa without any real justification. But hey, that is what makes us human, these unexplainable things called feelings.
PS perhaps a new hashtag on X would be appropriate #stopthedownvoting
Yeah I’m asking because downvotes are far too ambigious. I think they’re ambigious to the point that they don’t make for useful feedback (You can’t update a worldview for the better if you don’t know what’s wrong with it). I don’t think downvotes are necessarily bad as a concept though. And about humanity—sure, and on any other website I’d largely have agreed with your view, but when I talk about intellectual things I largely push my own humanity to the side. And even if somebody downvotes because of irrational feelings, I’m interested in what those feelings are.
But I know that people on here frequently value truth, and I’m quite brutal to those values as I think truth is about as valid of a concept as a semicolon (the language is just math/logic rather than English). And if we are to talk about Truth with a capital T, then we’re speaking about reality, which is more fundamental than language (the territory, reality, is important. But I rarely see any good maps, even on this website. So when taoists seem to suggest throwing the map away entirely, I do think that’s a good idea for every day life. It’s only for science, research and tech that I value maps). That makes me an outlier though, haha.
I didn’t downvote it, but didn’t upvote it either. This answer was posted after other answers that contained this answer as a subset, with deeper analysis.
That makes sense, I just evaluated the comment in isolation. But I believe that the first few downvotes were as “incorrect” (the red X) rather than regular downvotes (down arrow), which is why the feedback occured to me as simply mistaken (as the comment is not false).
I’ve noticed, by the way, that most comments posted tend to get downvoted initially and then return to 0 over time. There may be a few regular, highly active users with high standards or something, and less casual users with lower standards which balance them out over time. I’ve gone to −10 and back before.
I understood why you asked, I am also interested in general why people up or down vote something. I could be a really good information and food for thought.
Yeah, who doesn’t want capital T truth… But I have come to appreciate the subjective experience more and more. I like science and rational thinking, it has gotten us pretty far, but who am I the question someones experience. If someone met ‘the creator’ on an ayahuasca journey or think that love is the essence of universe, who am I to judge. When I see the statistics on the massive use of anti-depressants it is obvious to me that we can´t use rational and logical thinking to think our way out from our feelings. What are rationality and logical thinking good for if it in the end can’t make us feel good?