[edit feb 2 2025: no longer sure this is entirely correct, but I think people who only have very high quality comments are probably not posting enough, I want to see what they’d say if they filtered themselves less. people who are new apparently aren’t even allowed to get downvoted much without being autobanned. people who post a lot of comments that get no votes may have bad signal to noise ratio. ultimately what matters is whether you’re in fact communicating about things that will help us what better is and how to make the world better]
general site reminder: you don’t need to get anyone’s permission to post. downvoted comments are not shameful. Post enough that you get downvoted or you aren’t getting useful feedback; Don’t map your anticipation of downvotes to whether something is okay to post, map it to whether other people want it promoted. Don’t let downvotes override your agency, just let them guide it up and down the page after the fact. if there were a way to more clearly signal this in the UI that would be cool...
[edit feb 2 2025: no longer sure this is entirely correct, but I think people who only have very high quality comments are probably not posting enough, I want to see what they’d say if they filtered themselves less. people who are new apparently aren’t even allowed to get downvoted much without being autobanned. people who post a lot of comments that get no votes may have bad signal to noise ratio. ultimately what matters is whether you’re in fact communicating about things that will help us what better is and how to make the world better]
general site reminder: you don’t need to get anyone’s permission to post. downvoted comments are not shameful. Post enough that you get downvoted or you aren’t getting useful feedback; Don’t map your anticipation of downvotes to whether something is okay to post, map it to whether other people want it promoted. Don’t let downvotes override your agency, just let them guide it up and down the page after the fact. if there were a way to more clearly signal this in the UI that would be cool...