Was that post good or bad? It sounded to me like you thought the post had value, just not as much as was currently showing. If you downvoted a post you thought had positive value (you were confident that its current karma value was too high?)
It was good—the if part of your quote is pretty accurate.
why not downvote one that you don’t see any value in?
Downvote a different post of the same author because I didn’t like that one? That doesn’t sound like a good idea.
Downvote a different post of the same author because I didn’t like that one? That doesn’t sound like a good idea.
No, I mean why wouldn’t you downvote a hypothetical post that you are agnostic about?
Imagine there are two posts, both have 50 karma.
You read one and feel confident that it is net positive but that 50 is too high.
You read the other and it is not net positive for you—you just have a meh reaction to it.
It seems very odd to me that one would downvote the former but not the latter. The net effect is to encourage people to read/write a post that is more likely to provide a meh reaction than be net positive.
No, I mean why wouldn’t you downvote a hypothetical post that you are agnostic about?
Because such a post has more probability mass on the “it’s really good” hypothesis. If I’m confident that a post is only slightly good, well then I’m also confident that it’s not very good.
It was good—the if part of your quote is pretty accurate.
Downvote a different post of the same author because I didn’t like that one? That doesn’t sound like a good idea.
No, I mean why wouldn’t you downvote a hypothetical post that you are agnostic about?
Imagine there are two posts, both have 50 karma.
You read one and feel confident that it is net positive but that 50 is too high.
You read the other and it is not net positive for you—you just have a meh reaction to it.
It seems very odd to me that one would downvote the former but not the latter. The net effect is to encourage people to read/write a post that is more likely to provide a meh reaction than be net positive.
Because such a post has more probability mass on the “it’s really good” hypothesis. If I’m confident that a post is only slightly good, well then I’m also confident that it’s not very good.