I didn’t, but I often want to downvote articles that seem to be lecturing a group who wouldn’t read or be changed by the article. I know a lot of idiots will upvote such articles out of a belief that by doing so they are helping or attacking that group. On reddit, it often felt like that is the main reason people upvote things, to engage indirectly with others, and it kills the sub, clogging it with posts that the people who visit the sub are not themselves getting anything from.
If you engaged with the target group successfully, they would upvote the post themselves, so a person should generally never upvote on others’ behalf, because they don’t actually know what would work for them.
Unfortunately, the whole anonymous voting thing makes it impossible to properly address voting norm issues like this. So either I address it improperly by making deep guesses about why people are voting, in this way (no, don’t enjoy) or I prepare to depose lesswrong.com with a better system (that’s what I’m doing)
I didn’t, but I often want to downvote articles that seem to be lecturing a group who wouldn’t read or be changed by the article. I know a lot of idiots will upvote such articles out of a belief that by doing so they are helping or attacking that group. On reddit, it often felt like that is the main reason people upvote things, to engage indirectly with others, and it kills the sub, clogging it with posts that the people who visit the sub are not themselves getting anything from.
If you engaged with the target group successfully, they would upvote the post themselves, so a person should generally never upvote on others’ behalf, because they don’t actually know what would work for them.
Unfortunately, the whole anonymous voting thing makes it impossible to properly address voting norm issues like this. So either I address it improperly by making deep guesses about why people are voting, in this way (no, don’t enjoy) or I prepare to depose lesswrong.com with a better system (that’s what I’m doing)