My strong language is an expression of annoyance, not anger, just to avoid misunderstanding.
The effects of a voting system depend on how people use it. For example, you could have exactly the same voting mechanism and a group norm of “upvote everything that contains your ingroup’s applause lights, and downvote everything that contains your outgroup’s applause lights” and the effects would be quite different.
If it becomes common knowledge that “you should sometimes downvote the stuff you like, and upvote the stuff you don’t like”, gods help us all. I am trying to fight this… emerging group norm.
On reflection, “downvoting a comment you like but not too much” is the lesser problem here. What makes my blood boil is people strategically upvoting comments that “are stupid, but I think that −10 karma goes a bit too far”. But I assume the same norm covers both.
My strong language is an expression of annoyance, not anger, just to avoid misunderstanding.
The effects of a voting system depend on how people use it. For example, you could have exactly the same voting mechanism and a group norm of “upvote everything that contains your ingroup’s applause lights, and downvote everything that contains your outgroup’s applause lights” and the effects would be quite different.
If it becomes common knowledge that “you should sometimes downvote the stuff you like, and upvote the stuff you don’t like”, gods help us all. I am trying to fight this… emerging group norm.
On reflection, “downvoting a comment you like but not too much” is the lesser problem here. What makes my blood boil is people strategically upvoting comments that “are stupid, but I think that −10 karma goes a bit too far”. But I assume the same norm covers both.
(Thx for the reply, that makes sense. Will try to get around to writing my own answer on this thread soon.)