There are many other categories suitable for downvoting which I’ve seen over the years. I’ve seen blatantly incoherent streams of thought, comments containing ‘facts’ known to be flat out wrong, posts with an extremely high percentage of spelling and grammatical errors, and material I simply don’t want to see here (rape and pedophilia related stuff springs to mind.) These are just the categories that spring to mind at the moment.
Only downvoting based on confidence and ‘being mean’ may cover most cases, but it still leaves a lot of significant bases uncovered.
My upvote/downvote rule has been “Do I want to see more of this type of thing on LW or not?” The three possible responses that I use are yes (+1), no (-1), and ‘meh’ (0).
There are many other categories suitable for downvoting which I’ve seen over the years. I’ve seen blatantly incoherent streams of thought, comments containing ‘facts’ known to be flat out wrong, posts with an extremely high percentage of spelling and grammatical errors, and material I simply don’t want to see here (rape and pedophilia related stuff springs to mind.) These are just the categories that spring to mind at the moment.
Only downvoting based on confidence and ‘being mean’ may cover most cases, but it still leaves a lot of significant bases uncovered.
My upvote/downvote rule has been “Do I want to see more of this type of thing on LW or not?” The three possible responses that I use are yes (+1), no (-1), and ‘meh’ (0).
Yeah, you’re right, those are more good reasons, and I’d probably downvote for them too!