Yeah, I was thinking of bringing up examples myself, but because of the various axes involved, bringing one up might not be terrible effective.
Another person (I think it was cousin_it) brought up the idea that it should come down to a bet. If we bet ten dollars, and one of us kept arguing after the evidence was in and the bet was lost all it would come down to is, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”
EDIT:Also someone went and down voted the crap out of me. Who’d I make mad and why?
Yeah, I was thinking of bringing up examples myself, but because of the various axes involved, bringing one up might not be terrible effective.
Yup. I thought of the ‘without an axe to grind’ proviso because I expect some politically-aligned think tanks out there have already published pamphlets or reports arguing one side or the other, but I wouldn’t be inclined to take their claims very seriously.
EDIT:Also someone went and down voted the crap out of me. Who’d I make mad and why?
Yes, it looks like almost all the comments related to the government policy issue got downvoted. This is annoying in that, I at least thought that it was a calm, rational discussion which was showing that political discussion isn’t necessarily mind-killing. I’m particularly perplexed by the downvoting of comments which consisted of either interesting non-standard ideas or of comments which included evidence of claims.
The downvote limit is 4 times your karma yes? So if the total downvote for the thread was around 60 points, the individual would only need to be around 15 karma.
Yes. It was originally equal to your karma but some of us had already spent that many downvotes and the point of the policy wasn’t to stop established users from being able to downvote.
Yeah, I was thinking of bringing up examples myself, but because of the various axes involved, bringing one up might not be terrible effective.
Another person (I think it was cousin_it) brought up the idea that it should come down to a bet. If we bet ten dollars, and one of us kept arguing after the evidence was in and the bet was lost all it would come down to is, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”
EDIT:Also someone went and down voted the crap out of me. Who’d I make mad and why?
Yup. I thought of the ‘without an axe to grind’ proviso because I expect some politically-aligned think tanks out there have already published pamphlets or reports arguing one side or the other, but I wouldn’t be inclined to take their claims very seriously.
Whoever did it, it’s not just you.
Me too. Around 30 points in around 10 minutes. I’m flattered.
My guess for all this is that someone found the whole conversation off-topic and mind-killing. Which seems to justify downvotes.
Did either of you perhaps post in any of the threads replying to billswift?
Yes. I think someone downvoted extra comments elsewhere for effect based on the magnitude and speed of the karma hit.
Yes, it looks like almost all the comments related to the government policy issue got downvoted. This is annoying in that, I at least thought that it was a calm, rational discussion which was showing that political discussion isn’t necessarily mind-killing. I’m particularly perplexed by the downvoting of comments which consisted of either interesting non-standard ideas or of comments which included evidence of claims.
It must be a relatively high karma user given the fact that downvotes are limited by total karma. Perhaps they’d care to explain themselves.
The downvote limit is 4 times your karma yes? So if the total downvote for the thread was around 60 points, the individual would only need to be around 15 karma.
Yes. It was originally equal to your karma but some of us had already spent that many downvotes and the point of the policy wasn’t to stop established users from being able to downvote.
I’m not sure. I’ve never actually run into it.