If you look at the newest posts on any given day, you’ll see a number with 0 or 1 karma. If my understanding is correct, this means they have been downvoted.
I don’t think this is correct, you can mouseover the karma score of a post to see the number of votes. E.g. here it has 1 karma from 1 vote (the automatic self-vote that is given when you post) and no downvotes
I think these posts are either not being shown on the frontpage to most people, or don’t get voted on before disappearing
Oh! I had the idea that new posts start with 3 karma, but then I was wrong.
In that case, I suppose downvoting is less common than I thought. I did still see one or two new posts with 0 or −1 karma, so my argument would still stand for them. But this is clearly less of an issue than I thought.
I don’t think this is correct, you can mouseover the karma score of a post to see the number of votes. E.g. here it has 1 karma from 1 vote (the automatic self-vote that is given when you post) and no downvotes
I think these posts are either not being shown on the frontpage to most people, or don’t get voted on before disappearing
Oh! I had the idea that new posts start with 3 karma, but then I was wrong.
In that case, I suppose downvoting is less common than I thought. I did still see one or two new posts with 0 or −1 karma, so my argument would still stand for them. But this is clearly less of an issue than I thought.
They start with a self-strong-upvote, which depends on the user karma https://​​github.com/​​centre-for-effective-altruism/​​ea-forum/​​blob/​​27d24f53b7dce59b770040e6ac9ff05fcb9c4b16/​​src/​​lib/​​votes/​​voteHelpers.ts#L71-L91