But some people seem to have a strong opinion about the magnitude of the result, like “this comment is good, but not +20 good, only +5 good” or “this comment is stupid and deserves to have negative karma, but −15 is too low so I am going to upvote it to balance all those upvotes”—which drives me crazy, because it means that some people’s votes depend on whether they were among the early or late voters (the early voters expressing their honest opinion, the late voters mostly voting the opposite of their honest opinion just because they decided that too much agreement is a bad thing).
I think this comes from a place of also seeing karma as reward/punishment, and thinking the reward/punishment is enough/too high, or from a place of seeing the score as representing where it should be relative to other comments, or just from trying to correct for underratedness/overratedness.
I sometimes do this, and think it’s alright with the current voting system, but I think it’s a flaw of the voting system that it creates this dynamic.
I think this comes from a place of also seeing karma as reward/punishment, and thinking the reward/punishment is enough/too high, or from a place of seeing the score as representing where it should be relative to other comments, or just from trying to correct for underratedness/overratedness.
I sometimes do this, and think it’s alright with the current voting system, but I think it’s a flaw of the voting system that it creates this dynamic.