For posts I use the vote as an indication of what the LW-consensus of this post is. So if the title is not that promising and the score is low I often don’t read it.
If I do read it though, I try to account for the “bias” of the up-/ downvote and make an effort to find an independent evaluation. So I don’t really think it’s an issue.
For posts I use the vote as an indication of what the LW-consensus of this post is. So if the title is not that promising and the score is low I often don’t read it. If I do read it though, I try to account for the “bias” of the up-/ downvote and make an effort to find an independent evaluation. So I don’t really think it’s an issue.