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.
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.