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.
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.