Two features of this poll make me doubt its usefulness:
You don’t define ‘systematic’. I’ve gone through user histories and looked at lots of their old comments, doling out lots of positive or negative karma in a short period of time based on the quality of the old comments. But I have no idea whether that makes me a ‘systematic downvoter’ or ‘mass downvoter’ in the sense people here are worried about. Your last question is particularly ambiguous, since it’s not clear whether ‘e.g. looking if a user has a history of other bad comments’ is meant to be an example of ‘systematic’ or of ‘not systematic’ down-voting.
You don’t allow people to express agnostic or highly uncertain views about anything. You allow ‘tends toward X’ and ‘don’t care’, but not ‘I don’t know’. I think I gave overly extreme answers because I do care about this issue and about whether it’s harming the community, but I don’t have a clear view yet of whether it’s net harmful.
Two features of this poll make me doubt its usefulness:
You don’t define ‘systematic’. I’ve gone through user histories and looked at lots of their old comments, doling out lots of positive or negative karma in a short period of time based on the quality of the old comments. But I have no idea whether that makes me a ‘systematic downvoter’ or ‘mass downvoter’ in the sense people here are worried about. Your last question is particularly ambiguous, since it’s not clear whether ‘e.g. looking if a user has a history of other bad comments’ is meant to be an example of ‘systematic’ or of ‘not systematic’ down-voting.
You don’t allow people to express agnostic or highly uncertain views about anything. You allow ‘tends toward X’ and ‘don’t care’, but not ‘I don’t know’. I think I gave overly extreme answers because I do care about this issue and about whether it’s harming the community, but I don’t have a clear view yet of whether it’s net harmful.