Wow, great visuals! Unrelatedly, for EAF admins/designers etc (e.g. @Toby Tremlett🔹) I find it pretty interesting and surprising that at the time of writing 7⁄8 comments have fewer karma than votes, even though all the comments seem benign and nice. Of course we want to preserve voting anonymity, but I wonder it you have any anonymised back-end tools to look into this, I’m not sure how common this is on other posts. I’m struggling to guess why this could be, I understand you all have good systems in place to keep bots off so presumably it’s not that, but it does seem like suspicious voting behaviour!
Some voters are known to downvote when they think the net karma on a post is too high. If asked about too high, they would probably point to the purposes of the karma system, like deciding which comments to emphasize to Forum visitors, signaling what kind of content the community finds valuable, providing adequate incentives to produce valuable content, etc.
I think that can be a valid voting philosophy (although I sometimes have various concerns about it in practice, especially where strong downvotes are used). While the karma counts for the comments here do not seem inflated to me by current karma-inflation standards, I do not think they plausibly justify an inference of bad-faith or even “suspicious voting behavior.”
Wow, great visuals!
Unrelatedly, for EAF admins/designers etc (e.g. @Toby Tremlett🔹) I find it pretty interesting and surprising that at the time of writing 7⁄8 comments have fewer karma than votes, even though all the comments seem benign and nice. Of course we want to preserve voting anonymity, but I wonder it you have any anonymised back-end tools to look into this, I’m not sure how common this is on other posts. I’m struggling to guess why this could be, I understand you all have good systems in place to keep bots off so presumably it’s not that, but it does seem like suspicious voting behaviour!
(I didn’t vote on any of the comments.)
Some voters are known to downvote when they think the net karma on a post is too high. If asked about too high, they would probably point to the purposes of the karma system, like deciding which comments to emphasize to Forum visitors, signaling what kind of content the community finds valuable, providing adequate incentives to produce valuable content, etc.
I think that can be a valid voting philosophy (although I sometimes have various concerns about it in practice, especially where strong downvotes are used). While the karma counts for the comments here do not seem inflated to me by current karma-inflation standards, I do not think they plausibly justify an inference of bad-faith or even “suspicious voting behavior.”
Yep that’s it I think
I don’t mind it, but will continue to often upvote low effort nice comments as I appreciate it and to perhaps encourage the behavior a little :).