I would assume you can only cast as many up votes as your karma value, too?
I’m not sure what the change accomplishes. Was there a thread on this I missed?
ETA: capping the up votes similarly will produce bad effects. :) But I’m still worried this tells legitimate lurkers “contribute written comments or we don’t want to know when you think a comment/post is poor!”
Up votes aren’t capped but your point about lurkers is interesting. The primary motivation for the change is to stop it being easy to just register an account then down vote everything you can find.
Then it should be possible to see how many down votes I’ve cast, to know how many are left. In practice, I expect that the number of downvotes is significantly less than the amount of Karma, but I’m not sure. If this is true, then the limitation is roughly equivalent to simply prohibiting people with Karma less than a threshold to downvote.
You are notified when you reach the limit by a message stating how many down votes you’ve made and what your current karma is. Until then I imagine you should not let this limit influence you:
Note: It is possible to see this message and the down vote count be greater than the karma due its dynamic nature.
You are notified when you reach the limit by a message stating how many down votes you’ve made and what your current karma is. Until then I imagine you should not let this limit influence you:
I disagree, I want to reserve that power for where I see fit to apply it. I would prefer to calibrate my behavior, so that I won’t be left out unexpectedly.
If you reach the limit and encounter a post you really want to downvote you can always un-downvote a previous comment that you dislike less. That would be easier if the ‘disliked’ link showed comments as well as top level posts.
Yes, that’s an obvious solution, but placing yourself in that situation is unnecessary, and implementing the amendment you suggest is a waste of time where the situation could be avoided in the first place.
You seem to be thinking of things from the point of view of ‘I don’t want to suddenly find I can’t downvote’, where I’m thinking of it from the point of view of ‘what is likely to lead to the most informative karma scores’. I don’t think you’re wrong given where you seem to be coming from but I’m not looking at it from the same perspective.
We’ve just deployed another related change: Now you can only cast as many down votes as your karma value.
I would assume you can only cast as many up votes as your karma value, too?
I’m not sure what the change accomplishes. Was there a thread on this I missed?
ETA: capping the up votes similarly will produce bad effects. :) But I’m still worried this tells legitimate lurkers “contribute written comments or we don’t want to know when you think a comment/post is poor!”
Up votes aren’t capped but your point about lurkers is interesting. The primary motivation for the change is to stop it being easy to just register an account then down vote everything you can find.
Then it should be possible to see how many down votes I’ve cast, to know how many are left. In practice, I expect that the number of downvotes is significantly less than the amount of Karma, but I’m not sure. If this is true, then the limitation is roughly equivalent to simply prohibiting people with Karma less than a threshold to downvote.
You are notified when you reach the limit by a message stating how many down votes you’ve made and what your current karma is. Until then I imagine you should not let this limit influence you:
Note: It is possible to see this message and the down vote count be greater than the karma due its dynamic nature.
I disagree, I want to reserve that power for where I see fit to apply it. I would prefer to calibrate my behavior, so that I won’t be left out unexpectedly.
If you reach the limit and encounter a post you really want to downvote you can always un-downvote a previous comment that you dislike less. That would be easier if the ‘disliked’ link showed comments as well as top level posts.
Yes, that’s an obvious solution, but placing yourself in that situation is unnecessary, and implementing the amendment you suggest is a waste of time where the situation could be avoided in the first place.
You seem to be thinking of things from the point of view of ‘I don’t want to suddenly find I can’t downvote’, where I’m thinking of it from the point of view of ‘what is likely to lead to the most informative karma scores’. I don’t think you’re wrong given where you seem to be coming from but I’m not looking at it from the same perspective.
Also interesting: how did you upload an image in the comment? Is it an admins-only hack?
Just standard Markdown:
Check your inbox.
Well, that I know. The question was about uploading.
I like this