I suspect that a comment that had some minimal comment other than just an upvote note might have been better received. Examples would be something like “I understand your position. Upvoted.” or just “That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.” Although I did make a comment that was almost identical to the second one a while ago that got downvoted.
Edit: See for example this comment by Pedanterrific which seems to have been intended to have a similar goal set.
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.
I suspect that a comment that had some minimal comment other than just an upvote note might have been better received. Examples would be something like “I understand your position. Upvoted.” or just “That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.” Although I did make a comment that was almost identical to the second one a while ago that got downvoted.
Edit: See for example this comment by Pedanterrific which seems to have been intended to have a similar goal set.
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.