It’s not that hard to build up enough karma that it would be unfeasible to “spend” it all on heavily downvoted posts. If Karma is money, it’s money that can only be used to buy something that most people who have a lot of it don’t want anyway.
If you’re sure that a topic should be posted about, it’s a good idea to write about it in such a way as to minimize the chances of it being downvoted, otherwise your post will probably be less useful than it could have been.
I agree with your advice, but I suspect that many folks have interesting, relevant, reasonable quality insights that they don’t write posts or comments about because they are worried about downvotes.
If the OP causes some of those posts to be made that wouldn’t have been made, then it probably provides net benefit to LessWrong. That said, I completely endorse your second paragraph. There’s no reason to court downvotes that could have been avoided.
I think once I passed a thousand karma I basically stopped caring about it. To date, I’ve made two exceedingly self-indulgent comments, fully expecting them to get heavily downvoted, and it’s hard to care about either of them.
It’s not that hard to build up enough karma that it would be unfeasible to “spend” it all on heavily downvoted posts. If Karma is money, it’s money that can only be used to buy something that most people who have a lot of it don’t want anyway.
If you’re sure that a topic should be posted about, it’s a good idea to write about it in such a way as to minimize the chances of it being downvoted, otherwise your post will probably be less useful than it could have been.
I agree with your advice, but I suspect that many folks have interesting, relevant, reasonable quality insights that they don’t write posts or comments about because they are worried about downvotes.
If the OP causes some of those posts to be made that wouldn’t have been made, then it probably provides net benefit to LessWrong. That said, I completely endorse your second paragraph. There’s no reason to court downvotes that could have been avoided.
Ditto
I don’t agree. I don’t agree with many downvotes, and consider them bad behavior. It’s a bad idea to reward bad behavior by giving in to it.
I think once I passed a thousand karma I basically stopped caring about it. To date, I’ve made two exceedingly self-indulgent comments, fully expecting them to get heavily downvoted, and it’s hard to care about either of them.