OK actually there’s been a funny voting pattern on my top-level comment here, where I mostly got a bunch of upvotes and agree-votes, and then a whole lot of downvotes and disagree-votes in one cluster, and then mostly upvotes and agree-votes since then. Given the context, I feel like I should be more open than usual to a “shenanigans” hypothesis, which feels like it would be modest supporting evidence for the original conclusion.
Anyone with genuine disagreement—sorry if I’m rounding you into that group unfairly, and I’m still interested in hearing about it.
Maybe? It seems a bit extreme for that; I think 5⁄6 of the “disagree” votes came in over a period of an hour or two mid-evening UK time. But it could certainly just be coincidence, or a group of people happening to discuss it and all disagree, or something.
Yeah, I don’t know if that dynamic exists but it would be interesting if we could see what the forum looks like if you just count votes from different locations.
(If anyone disagreeing wants to get into explaining why, I’m interested. Honestly it would be more comforting to be wrong about this.)
OK actually there’s been a funny voting pattern on my top-level comment here, where I mostly got a bunch of upvotes and agree-votes, and then a whole lot of downvotes and disagree-votes in one cluster, and then mostly upvotes and agree-votes since then. Given the context, I feel like I should be more open than usual to a “shenanigans” hypothesis, which feels like it would be modest supporting evidence for the original conclusion.
Anyone with genuine disagreement—sorry if I’m rounding you into that group unfairly, and I’m still interested in hearing about it.
Could also be the Bay Area/UK voting dynamic.
Maybe? It seems a bit extreme for that; I think 5⁄6 of the “disagree” votes came in over a period of an hour or two mid-evening UK time. But it could certainly just be coincidence, or a group of people happening to discuss it and all disagree, or something.
Yeah, I don’t know if that dynamic exists but it would be interesting if we could see what the forum looks like if you just count votes from different locations.
Or indeed other kinds of clustering.