Fair, but there was (and arguably still is) a disconnect here between the net karma and the number of comments (was about 0.5 karma-per-comment (kpc) when I posted my comment), as well as the net karma and the evidence that a number of users actually decided the Wenar article was worth reading (based on their engagement in the comments). I think it’s likely there is a decent correlation between “should spend some on the frontpage” / “should encourage people to linkpost this stuff” on the one hand and “this is worth commenting on” / “I read the linkposted article.”
The post you referenced has 0 active comments (1 was deleted), so the kpc is NaN and there is no evidence either way about users deciding to read the article. Of course, there are a number of posts that I find over-karma’d and under-karma’d, but relatively few have the objective disconnects described above. In addition, there is little reason to think your post received (m)any downvotes at all—its karma is 16 on 7 votes, as opposed to 33 on 27 for the current post (as of me writing this sentence). So the probability that its karma has been significantly affected by a disagree-ergo-downvote phenomenon seems pretty low.
Fair, but there was (and arguably still is) a disconnect here between the net karma and the number of comments (was about 0.5 karma-per-comment (kpc) when I posted my comment), as well as the net karma and the evidence that a number of users actually decided the Wenar article was worth reading (based on their engagement in the comments). I think it’s likely there is a decent correlation between “should spend some on the frontpage” / “should encourage people to linkpost this stuff” on the one hand and “this is worth commenting on” / “I read the linkposted article.”
The post you referenced has 0 active comments (1 was deleted), so the kpc is NaN and there is no evidence either way about users deciding to read the article. Of course, there are a number of posts that I find over-karma’d and under-karma’d, but relatively few have the objective disconnects described above. In addition, there is little reason to think your post received (m)any downvotes at all—its karma is 16 on 7 votes, as opposed to 33 on 27 for the current post (as of me writing this sentence). So the probability that its karma has been significantly affected by a disagree-ergo-downvote phenomenon seems pretty low.