There’s no reason a person can’t be both earnest and still be hitting the applause light button. Intent matters, but so does outcomes.
I don’t recall recent EA discussion of this topic, but this is an extremely well-worn topic in general. This is sort of a professionalism 101 topic that most people debate in high school as something of a toy topic because the arguments are already well explored.
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”.
There’s no reason a person can’t be both earnest and still be hitting the applause light button. Intent matters, but so does outcomes.
I don’t recall recent EA discussion of this topic, but this is an extremely well-worn topic in general. This is sort of a professionalism 101 topic that most people debate in high school as something of a toy topic because the arguments are already well explored.
Almost everything that gets posted on the Forum has already been explored somewhere else. That doesn’t make it worth downvoting.
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”.