lessdazed comments on Secrets of the eliminati - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lessdazed 25 July 2011 05:51:40PM 1 point [-]

I personally experience a very mild bad feeling for certain posts that do not receive votes, a bad feeling for only downvoted posts, and a good feeling for upvoted posts almost regardless of the number of downvotes I get (within the quantities I have experienced).

I can honestly say it doesn't bother me to be downvoted many times in a post so long as the post got a few upvotes, one might be too few against 20. A goodly number like five would probably suffice against a hundred, twenty against a thousand. Asch conformity.

It doesn't feel at all worse to be downvoted many times than few times, it's because of more than scope insensitivity, as fewer downvotes is the cousin of no votes at all, the other type of negative.

This is not the type of post that would bother me if it went without votes, as it is merely an expression of my opinion.

Consequently, I wish the number of up and down votes were shown, rather than the sum.