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.”
(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 :).