The thing that bemuses me most at the moment is how bad I am at predicting the voting response to a post of mine on LW. Granted that I and most people upvote and downvote to get post ratings to where we think they should be, rather than rating them by what we thought of them and letting the aggregate chips all where they may, I still can’t do well predicting it (that factor should actually be improving my accuracy).
This post of yours is truly fantastic and a moral success; you avoided the opportunities to criticize flaws in the OP and found a truly interesting instance of when an argument resembling that in the OP would actually be valid.
Granted that I and most people upvote and downvote to get post ratings to where we think they should be,
(This factor applies most significantly to mid-quality contributions. There is a threshold beyond which votes tend to just spiral off towards infinity.)
I think this is the only example I have seen of a negative infinity spiral on LW. The OP shouldn’t be too discouraged, if what you are saying is right (and I think it is). Content rated approaching negative infinity isn’t (adjudged) that much worse than content with a high negative rating.
Great post.
The thing that bemuses me most at the moment is how bad I am at predicting the voting response to a post of mine on LW. Granted that I and most people upvote and downvote to get post ratings to where we think they should be, rather than rating them by what we thought of them and letting the aggregate chips all where they may, I still can’t do well predicting it (that factor should actually be improving my accuracy).
This post of yours is truly fantastic and a moral success; you avoided the opportunities to criticize flaws in the OP and found a truly interesting instance of when an argument resembling that in the OP would actually be valid.
(This factor applies most significantly to mid-quality contributions. There is a threshold beyond which votes tend to just spiral off towards infinity.)
I think this is the only example I have seen of a negative infinity spiral on LW. The OP shouldn’t be too discouraged, if what you are saying is right (and I think it is). Content rated approaching negative infinity isn’t (adjudged) that much worse than content with a high negative rating.