I tend to vote such threads to around a couple of karma myself. 0 isn’t unreasonable. < 0 is quite peculiar. But my confusion was resolved in this instance. Someone messaged me and explained that he was trying to work out why the votes were fluctuating so much (4 → 0 in an hour) so was testing what would happen if he put down one more to −1.
As a side effect to these posts going up and down I’ve now started paying attention to only the last digit of the score. The 10s are mostly noise!
Rewarding people for prompt attention to housekeeping tasks seems more appropriate than punishing them.
I tend to vote such threads to around a couple of karma myself. 0 isn’t unreasonable. < 0 is quite peculiar. But my confusion was resolved in this instance. Someone messaged me and explained that he was trying to work out why the votes were fluctuating so much (4 → 0 in an hour) so was testing what would happen if he put down one more to −1.
As a side effect to these posts going up and down I’ve now started paying attention to only the last digit of the score. The 10s are mostly noise!
I certainly wouldn’t want to punish them, which is why I’d also upvote any such thread that ended up with a negative score.