My personal experience is mainly with writing heretical posts of good quality such that I get more up votes than down but also a lot of down votes (maybe 1⁄3 down and 2⁄3 up)
How the heck can you tell what the upvote/downvote breakdown is…? I’ve never seen anything about this in the UI.
It seems to me that variability in vote weights adds so much noise here that you can’t make anything resembling the kind of inference that you’d like to make…
I think this is particularly hard with posts, after the first few votes (esp. once someone has strong upvoted it). But I think it’s easier with comments if you’re paying attention, esp. if you see that your karma is fairly low but has a largish number of votes.
Yeah, I comment far more than I post, and I have a general idea that if I get no downvotes, it means I’m optimizing too much for approval rather than exploration of non-obvious ideas. The vote-delta feature makes it a little easier to see the downvotes (I’ve disabled the hiding of negatives), but mostly I have to look and figure out if the average votes-per-voter is particularly low.
How the heck can you tell what the upvote/downvote breakdown is…? I’ve never seen anything about this in the UI.
Well, I do say “maybe”; this is a guess based on how the score evolved over time and how the the total score compares to the number of votes.
It seems to me that variability in vote weights adds so much noise here that you can’t make anything resembling the kind of inference that you’d like to make…
I think this is particularly hard with posts, after the first few votes (esp. once someone has strong upvoted it). But I think it’s easier with comments if you’re paying attention, esp. if you see that your karma is fairly low but has a largish number of votes.
Yeah, I comment far more than I post, and I have a general idea that if I get no downvotes, it means I’m optimizing too much for approval rather than exploration of non-obvious ideas. The vote-delta feature makes it a little easier to see the downvotes (I’ve disabled the hiding of negatives), but mostly I have to look and figure out if the average votes-per-voter is particularly low.
An interesting feature would be to show the ratio instead of only the vote count in addition to the score.