1. Not many. Wild guess: 1 to 5% of comments, 5 to 15% of top-level posts.
2. No. Too complicated. Not too complicated to understand and use, but too complicated to be worth bothering with. Besides, I don’t use Firefox.
3. No threshold, I see everything. At first, because I wanted to see for myself what sort of thing would sink to the bottom of the barrel before ignoring it, and thereafter because there’s very little that’s ignore-worthy, and it’s not worth (see (2)) looking through the preferences to find the knob to tweak.
4. Content and presentation. Does it contain new ideas? Retreads of the past? Good arguments or bad? Has the writer Done Something, or just obsessed on empty puzzles? Is reading it like walking into an elegantly furnished Palladian villa to the tinkling of harpsichords, or a dark and cluttered attic? Do I feel smarter or stupider for having read it?
5. Agreeing with the writer could be a factor. I try not to let it be.
I may be less inclined to upvote the top people, on the grounds that “Of course it’s brilliant, it’s by [whoever]! But does it excel, compared with their usual?” I’m undecided whether that should be a consideration.
6. Not sure what the difference is with question (4).
7. I never comment on how or why I voted in any individual case. If I have something specific to say in reply, I’ll say it. Voting serves a different purpose.
8. Keeping participants on their toes. This is a test, and you are being marked on it. Like life, but you get to see your score.
9. Can’t think of anything. I wouldn’t like to see more complicated voting. +/0/- is enough for me.
10. If I’m moved to reply to a comment, then unless I’m just scolding a troll, it was worth at least enough to me to not downvote it.
11. Up: “I iz da man!!” Down: “O noes! I wuz WRONG on teh intarwebz!!” Then I get over that and look at the actual replies.
12. I’m still in the process of deciding how and when to vote. At the moment I only vote up or down when I’m particularly struck by a posting’s worth or worthlessness.
I vote up much more often than I vote down.
I prefer to decide my vote on a post or comment before reading any of the replies.
1. Not many. Wild guess: 1 to 5% of comments, 5 to 15% of top-level posts.
2. No. Too complicated. Not too complicated to understand and use, but too complicated to be worth bothering with. Besides, I don’t use Firefox.
3. No threshold, I see everything. At first, because I wanted to see for myself what sort of thing would sink to the bottom of the barrel before ignoring it, and thereafter because there’s very little that’s ignore-worthy, and it’s not worth (see (2)) looking through the preferences to find the knob to tweak.
4. Content and presentation. Does it contain new ideas? Retreads of the past? Good arguments or bad? Has the writer Done Something, or just obsessed on empty puzzles? Is reading it like walking into an elegantly furnished Palladian villa to the tinkling of harpsichords, or a dark and cluttered attic? Do I feel smarter or stupider for having read it?
5. Agreeing with the writer could be a factor. I try not to let it be.
I may be less inclined to upvote the top people, on the grounds that “Of course it’s brilliant, it’s by [whoever]! But does it excel, compared with their usual?” I’m undecided whether that should be a consideration.
6. Not sure what the difference is with question (4).
7. I never comment on how or why I voted in any individual case. If I have something specific to say in reply, I’ll say it. Voting serves a different purpose.
8. Keeping participants on their toes. This is a test, and you are being marked on it. Like life, but you get to see your score.
9. Can’t think of anything. I wouldn’t like to see more complicated voting. +/0/- is enough for me.
10. If I’m moved to reply to a comment, then unless I’m just scolding a troll, it was worth at least enough to me to not downvote it.
11. Up: “I iz da man!!” Down: “O noes! I wuz WRONG on teh intarwebz!!” Then I get over that and look at the actual replies.
12. I’m still in the process of deciding how and when to vote. At the moment I only vote up or down when I’m particularly struck by a posting’s worth or worthlessness.
I vote up much more often than I vote down.
I prefer to decide my vote on a post or comment before reading any of the replies.