What’s common between them is a perception an article they wrote they believe to be quite good was “poorly received” on the site, while still having a positive and significant number of upvotes.
So reception intuitively seems like it involves voting.
The common tendency I see in articles like this is that there is often a high proportion of comments that disagree with or criticize the OP, and that these comments often receive more upvotes than the OP. So, it seems like what people are really upset about when their articles on the EA Forum or LW receive a merely a lukewarm reception, as opposed to an overwhelmingly negative one, is that, while there are at least a majority of the community who at least weakly supports them, there is a significant minority of the community who is more willing to strongly and vocally disagree with, criticize, or oppose them.
Other factors: “comments”.
So there are two “upsetting”/”uplifting” dimensions: votes, and comments.
If we assumed they were independent, then there are four possibilities:
1) Upvoted, positive comments.
2) Upvoted, negative comments.
3) Downvoted, positive comments.
4) Downvoted, negative comments.
1. looks like a warm reception.
2. seems to be the problem.
3. might be on par with 2, or maybe it’s not as bad. It depends on whether people care about votes or comments more, or if they’re unhappy if either dimension is negative.
4. probably makes people feel bad, but it seems rare—Downvoted, no/few comments, seems more common. (Although considering this brings the number of quadrants up to 9.)
Note also that displayed totals are misleading—this is definitely not one vote per reader. A vote can be anywhere from 1 to over 10, depending on karma total of the voter and whether it’s a “strong” vote. For totals below 30 or so, it’s mostly noise rather than signal—this is 6-8 votes out of possibly hundreds of readers.
So reception intuitively seems like it involves voting.
Other factors: “comments”.
So there are two “upsetting”/”uplifting” dimensions: votes, and comments.
If we assumed they were independent, then there are four possibilities:
1) Upvoted, positive comments.
2) Upvoted, negative comments.
3) Downvoted, positive comments.
4) Downvoted, negative comments.
1. looks like a warm reception.
2. seems to be the problem.
3. might be on par with 2, or maybe it’s not as bad. It depends on whether people care about votes or comments more, or if they’re unhappy if either dimension is negative.
4. probably makes people feel bad, but it seems rare—Downvoted, no/few comments, seems more common. (Although considering this brings the number of quadrants up to 9.)
Note also that displayed totals are misleading—this is definitely not one vote per reader. A vote can be anywhere from 1 to over 10, depending on karma total of the voter and whether it’s a “strong” vote. For totals below 30 or so, it’s mostly noise rather than signal—this is 6-8 votes out of possibly hundreds of readers.