Here’s a meta-answer for you to agreement-karma vote on (i.e. use the “X” and “check mark,” (which affects “agreement karma”) not the “<” and “>” (which affect “overall karma” also called just “karma”):
”Agree” with this if it seems like there has been some degradation in EA Forum user voting behavior over the last year or so.
“Disagree” if it seems like no degradation in EA Forum user voting behavior has taken place in the last year.
Strong Agree/Disagree only if you’re particular confident in your observations.
In particular, don’t Agree or Disagree to adjust the overall Agreement karma to what you think it should be. The point is to use this as a poll, not for the final Agreement karma to necessarily reflect the truth (which you may know more about than other Forum users).
Abstain from voting if you’re not sure or object to my framing in this poll or my claim that the example I gave in the question is indicative of poor voting behavior.
I think there have been some weird examples of voting recently, but this isn’t one! I’ve long been annoyed with the naivite of EAs who think unsolicited outreach to billionaires will have a positive impact on the world.
My meta-answer currently has 3 karma with 17 votes despite my explanation of how to do agreement-karma voting.
Did people downvote my answer intentionally for some reason?
Or does this show that a lot of EA Forum users voting somehow still don’t understand the difference between regular karma and agreement karma and downvoted thinking that was how to participate in the poll?
Edit: My guess is the latter, based on priors and the fact that the top level post (the question) itself doesn’t have downvotes (14 karma with 6 votes) and none of the presumably several people who downvoted the meta-answer commented to explain why.
Here’s a meta-answer for you to agreement-karma vote on (i.e. use the “X” and “check mark,” (which affects “agreement karma”) not the “<” and “>” (which affect “overall karma” also called just “karma”):
”Agree” with this if it seems like there has been some degradation in EA Forum user voting behavior over the last year or so.
“Disagree” if it seems like no degradation in EA Forum user voting behavior has taken place in the last year.
Strong Agree/Disagree only if you’re particular confident in your observations.
In particular, don’t Agree or Disagree to adjust the overall Agreement karma to what you think it should be. The point is to use this as a poll, not for the final Agreement karma to necessarily reflect the truth (which you may know more about than other Forum users).
Abstain from voting if you’re not sure or object to my framing in this poll or my claim that the example I gave in the question is indicative of poor voting behavior.
I think there have been some weird examples of voting recently, but this isn’t one! I’ve long been annoyed with the naivite of EAs who think unsolicited outreach to billionaires will have a positive impact on the world.
Thanks! That’s a fair reason for a downvote / disagreement vote I hadn’t considered in this case.
My meta-answer currently has 3 karma with 17 votes despite my explanation of how to do agreement-karma voting.
Did people downvote my answer intentionally for some reason?
Or does this show that a lot of EA Forum users voting somehow still don’t understand the difference between regular karma and agreement karma and downvoted thinking that was how to participate in the poll?
Edit: My guess is the latter, based on priors and the fact that the top level post (the question) itself doesn’t have downvotes (14 karma with 6 votes) and none of the presumably several people who downvoted the meta-answer commented to explain why.