Upon reflection, I’d say we should be voting to correct points-numbers that are misaligned with post quality. Otherwise, if people continue to up-vote more posts than they down-vote, comments will accumulate more and more points the older they get, and a setting like “show me all posts above 3” won’t be meaningful across threads or comment-ages.
Added: The “odd social dynamics” point is good. I’ll follow Eliezer and thomblake here.
I would actually say that voting to correct post-quality would lead to some odd social dynamics. I’ll vote up if something is negative for no reason, but otherwise I’ll vote my opinion, not corrections—unless something seems really out of line.
I’d rather have the sum of people’s individual components then see everyone trying to correct everyone else’s voting.
Upon reflection, I’d say we should be voting to correct points-numbers that are misaligned with post quality. Otherwise, if people continue to up-vote more posts than they down-vote, comments will accumulate more and more points the older they get, and a setting like “show me all posts above 3” won’t be meaningful across threads or comment-ages.
Added: The “odd social dynamics” point is good. I’ll follow Eliezer and thomblake here.
I would actually say that voting to correct post-quality would lead to some odd social dynamics. I’ll vote up if something is negative for no reason, but otherwise I’ll vote my opinion, not corrections—unless something seems really out of line.
I’d rather have the sum of people’s individual components then see everyone trying to correct everyone else’s voting.
Agreed—I’ve been using voting the same way:
if (score < 0 && myPreferredScore >=0)
vote up
else
vote my conscience
Edit: had to camelCase the name above due to odd behavior of underscores. I should learn MarkDown.