when was the last time you skipped an article, comment or post because it was negative? (not that you are a typical user) (and maybe this is worthy of a poll in the OT)
This seems reasonable in general, aside from that minor quibble.
As one anecdata point, I do generally skip articles with much negative karma. I read via RSS, so I just hit ‘mark read’ on them. LW users are not big downvoters, most of the time, so if something has more than a few downvotes, I have found that I probably don’t want to read it.
And of course, comments with a score of −3 are hidden by default, so many people probably don’t read them.
when was the last time you skipped an article, comment or post because it was negative? (not that you are a typical user) (and maybe this is worthy of a poll in the OT)
This seems reasonable in general, aside from that minor quibble.
As one anecdata point, I do generally skip articles with much negative karma. I read via RSS, so I just hit ‘mark read’ on them. LW users are not big downvoters, most of the time, so if something has more than a few downvotes, I have found that I probably don’t want to read it.
And of course, comments with a score of −3 are hidden by default, so many people probably don’t read them.