In isolation I agree. But I found nothing new or interesting in this post. Since votes control how visible a post is, I view votes as purely a signal about how much I want to see and how much I want others to see content like this. Since I didn’t find it new or interested it was a poor use of my time to read it, hence the down vote.
When I down vote I like to tell people why so they have useful feedback on what makes people down vote.
I know many people vote to say “yay” or “boo”. I disagree with this voting style, and my votes generally should not be interpreted that way. I down vote to say “I don’t think you should bother reading this” and I up vote to say “I think you should read this”.
In isolation I agree. But I found nothing new or interesting in this post. Since votes control how visible a post is, I view votes as purely a signal about how much I want to see and how much I want others to see content like this. Since I didn’t find it new or interested it was a poor use of my time to read it, hence the down vote.
When I down vote I like to tell people why so they have useful feedback on what makes people down vote.
I know many people vote to say “yay” or “boo”. I disagree with this voting style, and my votes generally should not be interpreted that way. I down vote to say “I don’t think you should bother reading this” and I up vote to say “I think you should read this”.