Right—in my view, net-negative karma conveys a particular message (something like “this post would be better off not existing”) that is meaningfully stronger than the median voter’s standard for downvoting. It can therefore easily exist in circumstances where the median voter would not have endorsed that conclusion.
Right—in my view, net-negative karma conveys a particular message (something like “this post would be better off not existing”) that is meaningfully stronger than the median voter’s standard for downvoting. It can therefore easily exist in circumstances where the median voter would not have endorsed that conclusion.