I got 90% of my upvotes because my opinion happened to align with the majority group’s on a contentious topic. It’s hard to complain overmuch about downvotes for the same reason. Granted, it’s also hard to hold upvotes/downvotes in any kind of regard anymore; hell, my most upvoted comments of all time were social commentary on an issue 90%+ of the people involved were mindkilled on, rather than any of the meaningful contributions I’ve attempted.
If you take pictures and post them on photography websites, the “likes” will tell you that you should photograph sunsets, puppies, and well-lit soft porn. That’s… really bad advice :-/
I got 90% of my upvotes because my opinion happened to align with the majority group’s on a contentious topic. It’s hard to complain overmuch about downvotes for the same reason. Granted, it’s also hard to hold upvotes/downvotes in any kind of regard anymore; hell, my most upvoted comments of all time were social commentary on an issue 90%+ of the people involved were mindkilled on, rather than any of the meaningful contributions I’ve attempted.
Karma is a passable negative feedback tool, but it’s a horrible positive feedback tool.
My intuition would have been the opposite. Can you explain?
Maybe an example will help.
If you take pictures and post them on photography websites, the “likes” will tell you that you should photograph sunsets, puppies, and well-lit soft porn. That’s… really bad advice :-/