They surprised me too. (I actually felt the urge to use an unnecessary exclamation point there the priming’s made me so enthusiastic...)
And I think that the status gained from the fact that you noticed being primed probably outweighed any lost due to it us being told it happened. Though now that we’re noticing it, we need to decide which frequency of upvoting we should be using so we can avoid the effect.
They surprised me too. (I actually felt the urge to use an unnecessary exclamation point there the priming’s made me so enthusiastic...)
And I think that the status gained from the fact that you noticed being primed probably outweighed any lost due to it us being told it happened. Though now that we’re noticing it, we need to decide which frequency of upvoting we should be using so we can avoid the effect.