I think of this as different from voting for another person’s content. When I read a comment with e.g. 3 upvotes and 10 karma, I assume “the author supports this, and I guess at least one other person really strongly agrees.” If the “other person” who strongly agrees is actually the author, I get a skewed sense of how much support their view has.
Given the tiny sample sizes that voting represents, this isn’t a major problem, but it still seems to make the karma system work a bit less well. As a moderator/admin, I’d discourage strong-upvoting yourself, though the Forum doesn’t have an official ban on it.
Oh, I think the functionality is currently net-positive. I was just commenting on the technical difficulty of implementing it if the EA Forum thought it was worth the change.
On a related question: I just posted a question to the forum, and once the page refreshed on the question I had just asked, it already had one vote. Is this an auto-setting where my questions get automatically upvoted by me, or did someone really upvote it in the few (mili)seconds before submitting it and the page reloading?
All of your posts start with a strong upvote from “you” automatically. Your comments start with a normal-strength upvote from “you” (as they do on Reddit). You can undo these votes the same way you’d undo any of your other votes.
I think of this as different from voting for another person’s content. When I read a comment with e.g. 3 upvotes and 10 karma, I assume “the author supports this, and I guess at least one other person really strongly agrees.” If the “other person” who strongly agrees is actually the author, I get a skewed sense of how much support their view has.
Given the tiny sample sizes that voting represents, this isn’t a major problem, but it still seems to make the karma system work a bit less well. As a moderator/admin, I’d discourage strong-upvoting yourself, though the Forum doesn’t have an official ban on it.
Is it difficult to remove the possibility of strongly upvoting yourself?
Not particularly hard. My guess is half an hour of work or so, maybe another half hour to really make sure that there are no UI bugs.
Ah OK it may be worth doing then
This hasn’t been implemented yet, was it forgotten about or just not worth it?
Oh, I think the functionality is currently net-positive. I was just commenting on the technical difficulty of implementing it if the EA Forum thought it was worth the change.
On a related question: I just posted a question to the forum, and once the page refreshed on the question I had just asked, it already had one vote. Is this an auto-setting where my questions get automatically upvoted by me, or did someone really upvote it in the few (mili)seconds before submitting it and the page reloading?
All of your posts start with a strong upvote from “you” automatically. Your comments start with a normal-strength upvote from “you” (as they do on Reddit). You can undo these votes the same way you’d undo any of your other votes.