Basically, if anyone was asked to vote the post up, rather than seeing the post and thinking “I want more of this on LW.” I apologize for not making that implication clearer. I’ve only seen this post at 0 or negative karma (but I’m not tracking it closely), which seems to me like people not wanting it to be negative rather than roughly equal groups liking and disliking it.
I upvoted the post because it had negative karma, and was not a post that I thought should be at negative karma.
In general I vote posts/comments in the direction I think their karma should be at. Thus for instance I downvoted Clippy’s comment above because I did not think it was so insightful that it merited 20+ karma. I would not have downvoted it if it were at 0 karma.
I assume many people take this approach (it fits in nicely with consequentialism) so this probably explains what you saw.
Basically, if anyone was asked to vote the post up, rather than seeing the post and thinking “I want more of this on LW.” I apologize for not making that implication clearer. I’ve only seen this post at 0 or negative karma (but I’m not tracking it closely), which seems to me like people not wanting it to be negative rather than roughly equal groups liking and disliking it.
I upvoted the post because it had negative karma, and was not a post that I thought should be at negative karma.
In general I vote posts/comments in the direction I think their karma should be at. Thus for instance I downvoted Clippy’s comment above because I did not think it was so insightful that it merited 20+ karma. I would not have downvoted it if it were at 0 karma.
I assume many people take this approach (it fits in nicely with consequentialism) so this probably explains what you saw.