I don’t know about front page posts, but a lot of comments stop getting downvotes at −2 or −3. I think they turn invisible for some people by default, so that’s why, rather than people thinking the point is already made.
On Hacker News, early voting trends usually continued to inspire more votes of the same kind. Except someones when someone would comment “Why is this getting downvoted” which could reverse it. They capped things to −4 points minimum now. Upvote orgies are still common. Some are due to quality, sure—some things deserve a lot of upvotes—but not all of them.
Hacker News seems to have a definite idea on curbing downvote sports by capping the point display when things go to negative. This might be a good idea. Another intentional thing they have is having no downvoting at all on the toplevel posts, but their posts are more links and short questions than original articles, so this might not fit LW that well.
Spurious upvoting is probably also going on, but I don’t see it as problematic as downvotes since it doesn’t come with a direct effect of anonymously telling people that they don’t belong on the forum.
I don’t know about front page posts, but a lot of comments stop getting downvotes at −2 or −3. I think they turn invisible for some people by default, so that’s why, rather than people thinking the point is already made.
On Hacker News, early voting trends usually continued to inspire more votes of the same kind. Except someones when someone would comment “Why is this getting downvoted” which could reverse it. They capped things to −4 points minimum now. Upvote orgies are still common. Some are due to quality, sure—some things deserve a lot of upvotes—but not all of them.
Hacker News seems to have a definite idea on curbing downvote sports by capping the point display when things go to negative. This might be a good idea. Another intentional thing they have is having no downvoting at all on the toplevel posts, but their posts are more links and short questions than original articles, so this might not fit LW that well.
Spurious upvoting is probably also going on, but I don’t see it as problematic as downvotes since it doesn’t come with a direct effect of anonymously telling people that they don’t belong on the forum.
Similar thing happens on reddit. I think it’s widespread across vote-based sites. Any counterexamples?