12, One point about voting agreement vs. voting quality: frequently I read a post and think “Oh, the obvious [or ideally, nonobvious] objection to the author’s point X is argument Y.” I then click through to the comments with the intent of posting Y. If, however, someone has already made argument Y, then I will upvote that comment, because trivially I think it makes an important contribution to the discussion if I were planning on making it myself. But of course this also means that I agree with the comment (almost certainly: I haven’t posted a argument I believe is wrong here yet, but I can well imagine doing so).
All that is to say that voting agreement and voting quality aren’t as independent as some people seem to think.
12, One point about voting agreement vs. voting quality: frequently I read a post and think “Oh, the obvious [or ideally, nonobvious] objection to the author’s point X is argument Y.” I then click through to the comments with the intent of posting Y. If, however, someone has already made argument Y, then I will upvote that comment, because trivially I think it makes an important contribution to the discussion if I were planning on making it myself. But of course this also means that I agree with the comment (almost certainly: I haven’t posted a argument I believe is wrong here yet, but I can well imagine doing so).
All that is to say that voting agreement and voting quality aren’t as independent as some people seem to think.