I wonder if more effort should be put into exploring ways to allow authors to receive better feedback than the karma system currently provides. For example, upon pressing the downvote button, users could be prompted to select from a list of reasons (“low quality”, “irrelevant”, “unkind”, etc.) to be shared privately and anonymously with the author. It can be very frustrating to see one’s posts or comments get downvoted for no apparent reason, especially relative to a counterfactual where one receives information that not only dispels the uncertainty but potentially helps one write better content in the future.
(Concerning this post in particular, I have no idea why it was downvoted.)
I don’t get why this post has been downvoted; it was previously at 16 and now at 8.
I wonder if more effort should be put into exploring ways to allow authors to receive better feedback than the karma system currently provides. For example, upon pressing the downvote button, users could be prompted to select from a list of reasons (“low quality”, “irrelevant”, “unkind”, etc.) to be shared privately and anonymously with the author. It can be very frustrating to see one’s posts or comments get downvoted for no apparent reason, especially relative to a counterfactual where one receives information that not only dispels the uncertainty but potentially helps one write better content in the future.
(Concerning this post in particular, I have no idea why it was downvoted.)
See this comment on LessWrong.