Will_Newsome comments on Rationality tip: Predict your comment karma - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Will_Newsome 14 September 2011 05:07AM

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Comment author: prase 14 September 2011 07:52:36PM 0 points [-]

There is not one reputation on a forum like this, where people don't engage in gossip about other users. You have as many reputations as many users are here. So even if somebody is downvoting your comments without reading them (by the way, are you sure about that?), it still doesn't mean that you can't lose more reputation.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 14 September 2011 11:30:31PM *  1 point [-]

(by the way, are you sure about that?)

Yes. (It would be a weird hypothesis for me to come up with with little evidence and then assert confidently.)

I wasn't claiming I can't lose more reputation.

Comment author: shminux 14 September 2011 11:59:01PM 0 points [-]

How did you manage to test it?

Comment author: Will_Newsome 15 September 2011 12:03:34AM 2 points [-]

Refreshed the page every 5 seconds. If all my comments get downvoted at once that is strong evidence that they weren't actually read, especially if it happens more than once.

There's also a precedent, I dunno if you saw my discussion post about karmassassination.