Thanks. I guess a possible reason why it wasn’t well-received was because maybe it read as “Hopefully he’ll trade rep with me =D” or something. Perhaps any upvote declaration would suffer from that, but especially one that doesn’t have any other content to distract from it or warrant an upvote on its own.
Something like that. A post just saying ‘upvote’ seemed astonishingly pointless to me, and thus “the sort of thing I would prefer to see less of on Less Wrong”, but your explanation was perfectly satisfactory so I reversed my vote (down to up).
I find this sort of thing happens a lot- the first couple downvotes can usually be mitigated by a clarifying edit.
Thanks. I guess a possible reason why it wasn’t well-received was because maybe it read as “Hopefully he’ll trade rep with me =D” or something. Perhaps any upvote declaration would suffer from that, but especially one that doesn’t have any other content to distract from it or warrant an upvote on its own.
Something like that. A post just saying ‘upvote’ seemed astonishingly pointless to me, and thus “the sort of thing I would prefer to see less of on Less Wrong”, but your explanation was perfectly satisfactory so I reversed my vote (down to up).
I find this sort of thing happens a lot- the first couple downvotes can usually be mitigated by a clarifying edit.