just automatically clicking upvote as I start reading a post with an interesting first paragraph by someone whose name
Internet voting experiences very different from your own…
My LW upvoting policy is that every once in a while I go through the big list of everything I’ve read, grep for LessWrong posts, look through the latest ~50 entries and decide to open them and (strong) up/downvote them based on how they look, a few months in retrospect.
My guess is you’re the only person in the world who does this, but also this is better than what everyone else is doing and maybe I should start doing it
Internet voting experiences very different from your own…
My LW upvoting policy is that every once in a while I go through the big list of everything I’ve read,
grepfor LessWrong posts, look through the latest ~50 entries and decide to open them and (strong) up/downvote them based on how they look, a few months in retrospect.My guess is you’re the only person in the world who does this, but also this is better than what everyone else is doing and maybe I should start doing it
Upvotes communicate to your future self, to future others, to current others, to the post’s author, and to the site’s promotion algorithm.
Voting a few months out tells me you’re mostly interested in #1 and #2 from that list, while I’m I’m pretty big on the last two.