It definitely changes my feeling about getting voted down to know there are people like Larks. I guess I just assumed that everyone was like me in reserving downvotes for the absolute worst stuff. Maybe there’s some way of getting new users to expect that their first few comments will be voted down and not to worry about it?
It would be interesting to see statistics on up vs down vote frequency per user. Even just a graph of how many users are in the 0-10% down vote bracket, 10-20%, etc. would be neat. I doubt the data is currently available, otherwise it would be trivial to put together a simple graph and a quick post detailing trends in that data.
I like the sound of that for some reason.
I too like this idea that would grant me more power without any more responsibility.
Larks strikes again.
(Comment was at −1 when I found it.)
It definitely changes my feeling about getting voted down to know there are people like Larks. I guess I just assumed that everyone was like me in reserving downvotes for the absolute worst stuff. Maybe there’s some way of getting new users to expect that their first few comments will be voted down and not to worry about it?
It would be interesting to see statistics on up vs down vote frequency per user. Even just a graph of how many users are in the 0-10% down vote bracket, 10-20%, etc. would be neat. I doubt the data is currently available, otherwise it would be trivial to put together a simple graph and a quick post detailing trends in that data.
To adjust your calibration a bit more: I worry that I might run out of my 4*Karma downvoting limit.
I guess that was a joke, but the downvote wasn’t me ;)
If nothing else downvoting replies to your own comments seems a bit dubeous