I’m not sure I understood what you are saying here? Do you add more in the direction they are already tilting, or are just more likely to vote if its a high-vote-volume post?
I am aware I vote based upon the current karma count. If someone has a bunch of karma, then I don’t mind downvoting. If the post or user has super little karma, I upvote it much more readily. Something has to be truly egregious for me to push it further into negative karma.
In the midrange I am less likely to vote at all, and vote more accurately: if it was personally valuable to me, if I feel its underrepresented, or if I feel like it would be better that more eyes see it then I upvote. My favorite thing is to disagree vote and then give karma for a valuable contribution. Then I feel like I’m (a True Rationalist =P) counteracting the natural “like+agree+karma” impulse. I try to vote like this as often as possible.
I’m not sure I understood what you are saying here? Do you add more in the direction they are already tilting, or are just more likely to vote if its a high-vote-volume post?
I am aware I vote based upon the current karma count. If someone has a bunch of karma, then I don’t mind downvoting. If the post or user has super little karma, I upvote it much more readily. Something has to be truly egregious for me to push it further into negative karma.
In the midrange I am less likely to vote at all, and vote more accurately: if it was personally valuable to me, if I feel its underrepresented, or if I feel like it would be better that more eyes see it then I upvote. My favorite thing is to disagree vote and then give karma for a valuable contribution. Then I feel like I’m (a True Rationalist =P) counteracting the natural “like+agree+karma” impulse. I try to vote like this as often as possible.
I would say I have a tendency to go with the crowd, yes, so voting in the same direction that is already there.
Which is the contrary as minding the current voting status as you suggest.
I think this (the first one) is a failure mode.