I too have noticed thatseveral critical posts have recently gotten net negative karma early on. I don’t think people should do that unless the post is just awful, quite half-baked, in bad faith, or rule-breaking. (This is intended to be somewhat higher than my standard for when pushing a post into negative karma more generally is appropriate.)
The mods redesigned the frontpage to de-emphasize community posts because there was a general consensus that they were starting to crowd out object-level discussions. I think that was the right call, but it makes it easier to bury community posts early (in light of the new + upvoted sort criteria). The people who are voting early do not seem fully representative of the community as a whole, and having posts buried due to unrepresentative votes is undesirable.
I too have noticed thatseveral critical posts have recently gotten net negative karma early on. I don’t think people should do that unless the post is just awful, quite half-baked, in bad faith, or rule-breaking. (This is intended to be somewhat higher than my standard for when pushing a post into negative karma more generally is appropriate.)
The mods redesigned the frontpage to de-emphasize community posts because there was a general consensus that they were starting to crowd out object-level discussions. I think that was the right call, but it makes it easier to bury community posts early (in light of the new + upvoted sort criteria). The people who are voting early do not seem fully representative of the community as a whole, and having posts buried due to unrepresentative votes is undesirable.