I think you’re confusing your reputation with Internet Points.
I, for one, have no idea what your karma score is and couldn’t care less. More Internet Points won’t give you respect and less won’t get you thrown out of this genteel establishment.
I think Jiro is concerned not with total karma but with some combination of (1) the effect on individual comments’ reception of their having a negative score and (2) the effect on his reputation of lots of his comments being negatively rated. Of course the latter is going to correlate with total karma but it’s more like total recent karma, and it seems like the short of thing readers could be affected by without explicitly noticing.
As to whether it’s Nier/Azathoth/Ra again: I wouldn’t be surprised, but I’m not sure “way more −1 than −2” is very strong evidence that one person is responsible for all the downvotes. It could equally be a few people who all dislike that sort of comment but don’t think it’s bad enough to bother downvoting them when they’re already negative.
I’m not referring to an overall karma score, but to each individual post. Posts at −1 are much less credible to readers than posts which aren’t at negative values. And unlike one’s overall karma score, the −1 is right there where everyone can easily see it and react.
So it’s not your reputation that gets destroyed but the credibility of your posts? I still don’t see it. Maybe I’m a unique snowflake, but I treat comment karma as the attitude of the hivemind with a lot of noise added, so a comment at −1 means to me that 1 (one, single, solo) person disliked it. So what? A comment universally liked is probably too bland and restates the obvious, anyway.
I think you’re confusing your reputation with Internet Points.
I, for one, have no idea what your karma score is and couldn’t care less. More Internet Points won’t give you respect and less won’t get you thrown out of this genteel establishment.
I think Jiro is concerned not with total karma but with some combination of (1) the effect on individual comments’ reception of their having a negative score and (2) the effect on his reputation of lots of his comments being negatively rated. Of course the latter is going to correlate with total karma but it’s more like total recent karma, and it seems like the short of thing readers could be affected by without explicitly noticing.
As to whether it’s Nier/Azathoth/Ra again: I wouldn’t be surprised, but I’m not sure “way more −1 than −2” is very strong evidence that one person is responsible for all the downvotes. It could equally be a few people who all dislike that sort of comment but don’t think it’s bad enough to bother downvoting them when they’re already negative.
An excellent opportunity for budding rationalists to practice resisting anchoring, I would think X-)
I’m not referring to an overall karma score, but to each individual post. Posts at −1 are much less credible to readers than posts which aren’t at negative values. And unlike one’s overall karma score, the −1 is right there where everyone can easily see it and react.
So it’s not your reputation that gets destroyed but the credibility of your posts? I still don’t see it. Maybe I’m a unique snowflake, but I treat comment karma as the attitude of the hivemind with a lot of noise added, so a comment at −1 means to me that 1 (one, single, solo) person disliked it. So what? A comment universally liked is probably too bland and restates the obvious, anyway.