Doing polls for this kind of thing, while somewhat interesting in a meta sense (I definitely like to see discussion about the social norms here), is rather off-topic. It would be less disruptive if you were to start by sticking to the already established norms (which can be learned by observing, and which you can ask me or Alicorn or Blueberry about via IM if you have questions), and occasionally break from the norms to test how other habits of yours are received.
ow. my karma is taking a hit. I should have expected that. And I should have set up another karma-balancing comment. I guess you can use this comment for karma balancing. That means if you voted another comment down, vote this one up, and vice versa.
So far I lost about 10 karma as a result of all these polls. Hopefully that will help reduce the emotional impact of future losses of karma, which would help me get over the paranoia about my comments causing more harm than good. And yes, I do plan to occasionally post comments that I suspect will be downvoted. But not too often, I’m not quite that reckless.
If you are going to make polls like that, the Open Thread is probably a better place to do it. There they won’t distract from the main topic of conversation.
And I’m glad that you’re not scared to post or get downvoted! :)
I agree. But at least that first poll got enough downvotes to block off all the others, for anyone who didn’t disable the feature that auto-hides comments with less than −3 karma.
Doing polls for this kind of thing, while somewhat interesting in a meta sense (I definitely like to see discussion about the social norms here), is rather off-topic. It would be less disruptive if you were to start by sticking to the already established norms (which can be learned by observing, and which you can ask me or Alicorn or Blueberry about via IM if you have questions), and occasionally break from the norms to test how other habits of yours are received.
hmm, good point.
heh, but now what I naturally want to say is:
please upvote this comment if you want to see more polls like this
or please downvote this comment if you want to see less polls like this
though of course you’re welcome to ignore this comment, and not vote at all.
ow. my karma is taking a hit. I should have expected that. And I should have set up another karma-balancing comment. I guess you can use this comment for karma balancing. That means if you voted another comment down, vote this one up, and vice versa.
So far I lost about 10 karma as a result of all these polls. Hopefully that will help reduce the emotional impact of future losses of karma, which would help me get over the paranoia about my comments causing more harm than good. And yes, I do plan to occasionally post comments that I suspect will be downvoted. But not too often, I’m not quite that reckless.
If you are going to make polls like that, the Open Thread is probably a better place to do it. There they won’t distract from the main topic of conversation.
And I’m glad that you’re not scared to post or get downvoted! :)
I agree. But at least that first poll got enough downvotes to block off all the others, for anyone who didn’t disable the feature that auto-hides comments with less than −3 karma.