At this point I am a little more concerned about LW’s reputation management, I recently posted about the developing story of Bill Gates divorce, and the concerns over his relationship with Epstein. I did it tongue in cheek, as I trusted people would pick up on the sarcasm. No go though. −22 Karma and counting, but only 3 comments. I’m confused now about what those −22 people think about Bill Gates and his divorce and how we should talk about it in a rational way.
Maybe restricting upvoting or downvoting to people who comment would help align the reputation system with some less ephemeral idea of what LW users think about a particular subject?
And yes, although I’m not sure I need to, but I do apologize ahead of time for using a sensational approach to engaging with users, but I had a hunch the post would get alot of hate with nothing to back it up. Hunch confirmed, so now I’m moving onto how to best address the hate. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Note that karma is not a 1:1 map to users. The more karma your account has, the higher the system weighs your vote, so there’s probably a lot less than 22 people behind those 22 down votes.
To confirm: the −22 karma is the sum of just 8 votes. If the 8 votes include Josh Smith-Brennan’s automatic self-upvote then it’s a maximum of 7 downvotes.
Well honestly, that puts my mind more at ease. I can deal with 7 peoples dislike of my post better than 22 peoples. My faith in this institution has been slightly restored.
Thanks for the info, So that means there were potentially fewer posters, but ones who’ve been around awhile and have heavy votes which compose a part of that metric. Not really possible to suss out the actual number is it?
Out of all the commenters so far, you have the highest Karma with 280. How heavy is your vote if you don’t mind my asking?
I’m confused. The source code seems to imply that anyone with 25,000 karma or more has a small vote power of 3 but the the list of actual user vote-powers implies it maxes out at 2.
With the intention of taking the reputation system here as a guide as opposed to a ‘brand’ or scarlet letter, I’m wondering what people think about deleting posts that garner a lot of negative Karma. I’m not expecting my Karma to all of a sudden rebound, however since enough people feel strongly negative about the post in question, there is some peer pressure to remove the post, unless I want to be seen as being a rebel or contrarian or meta-contrarian or intellectual hipster. I’m smart enough to recognize and interpret signaling, and not too set in my ways to not be able to attempt to go with the flow.
At this point I am a little more concerned about LW’s reputation management, I recently posted about the developing story of Bill Gates divorce, and the concerns over his relationship with Epstein. I did it tongue in cheek, as I trusted people would pick up on the sarcasm. No go though. −22 Karma and counting, but only 3 comments. I’m confused now about what those −22 people think about Bill Gates and his divorce and how we should talk about it in a rational way.
Maybe restricting upvoting or downvoting to people who comment would help align the reputation system with some less ephemeral idea of what LW users think about a particular subject?
And yes, although I’m not sure I need to, but I do apologize ahead of time for using a sensational approach to engaging with users, but I had a hunch the post would get alot of hate with nothing to back it up. Hunch confirmed, so now I’m moving onto how to best address the hate. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Note that karma is not a 1:1 map to users. The more karma your account has, the higher the system weighs your vote, so there’s probably a lot less than 22 people behind those 22 down votes.
You can find out the number of up/downvotes by hovering the mouse over the karma number between the arrows.
To confirm: the −22 karma is the sum of just 8 votes. If the 8 votes include Josh Smith-Brennan’s automatic self-upvote then it’s a maximum of 7 downvotes.
Well honestly, that puts my mind more at ease. I can deal with 7 peoples dislike of my post better than 22 peoples. My faith in this institution has been slightly restored.
Thanks for the info, So that means there were potentially fewer posters, but ones who’ve been around awhile and have heavy votes which compose a part of that metric. Not really possible to suss out the actual number is it?
Out of all the commenters so far, you have the highest Karma with 280. How heavy is your vote if you don’t mind my asking?
The karma-to-strong-vote-power-mapping can be found in the site’s open-sourced codebase, and Issa Rice’s alternative viewer has the list of actual user vote-powers.
I’m confused. The source code seems to imply that anyone with 25,000 karma or more has a small vote power of 3 but the the list of actual user vote-powers implies it maxes out at 2.
For those too lazy to read the source code.
Small Votes
Big Votes
Did … did you save this table a long time ago?? Weak 3-votes have been gone since February 2020 for privacy reasons.
Thanks. Fixed. I wrote the table right now. I was just reading the FAQ which links to outdated source code.
Oops, sorry about that. Will fix that link.
With the intention of taking the reputation system here as a guide as opposed to a ‘brand’ or scarlet letter, I’m wondering what people think about deleting posts that garner a lot of negative Karma. I’m not expecting my Karma to all of a sudden rebound, however since enough people feel strongly negative about the post in question, there is some peer pressure to remove the post, unless I want to be seen as being a rebel or contrarian or meta-contrarian or intellectual hipster. I’m smart enough to recognize and interpret signaling, and not too set in my ways to not be able to attempt to go with the flow.