I agree that post is low-quality in some sense (which is why I didn’t upvote it), but my impression is that its central flaw is being misinformed, in a way that’s fairly easy to identify. I’m more worried about criticism where it’s not even clear how much I agree with the criticism or where it’s socially costly to argue against the criticism because of the way it has been framed.
It also looks like the post got a fair number of downvotes, and that its karma is way lower than for other posts by the same author or on similar topics. So it actually seems to me the karma system is working well in that case.
(Possibly there is an issue where “has a fair number of downvotes” on the EA FOrum corresponds to “has zero karma” in fora with different voting norms/rules, and so the former here appearing too positive if one is more used to fora with the latter norm. Conversely I used to be confused why posts on the Alignment Forum that seemed great to me had more votes than karma score.)
It also looks like the post got a fair number of downvotes, and that its karma is way lower than for other posts by the same author or on similar topics. So it actually seems to me the karma system is working well in that case.
That’s what I thought as well. The top critical comment also has more karma than the top level post, which I have always considered to be functionally equivalent to a top level post being below par.
I agree that post is low-quality in some sense (which is why I didn’t upvote it), but my impression is that its central flaw is being misinformed, in a way that’s fairly easy to identify. I’m more worried about criticism where it’s not even clear how much I agree with the criticism or where it’s socially costly to argue against the criticism because of the way it has been framed.
It also looks like the post got a fair number of downvotes, and that its karma is way lower than for other posts by the same author or on similar topics. So it actually seems to me the karma system is working well in that case.
(Possibly there is an issue where “has a fair number of downvotes” on the EA FOrum corresponds to “has zero karma” in fora with different voting norms/rules, and so the former here appearing too positive if one is more used to fora with the latter norm. Conversely I used to be confused why posts on the Alignment Forum that seemed great to me had more votes than karma score.)
That’s what I thought as well. The top critical comment also has more karma than the top level post, which I have always considered to be functionally equivalent to a top level post being below par.