khafra comments on The Fox and the Low-Hanging Grapes - Less Wrong

-2 Post author: Strange7 06 March 2012 11:19PM

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Comment author: khafra 07 March 2012 04:27:00PM 4 points [-]

This is a strange pattern. Your post is massively downvoted, and every one of your comments on it are massively upvoted; enough to make the post a large net karma gain.

I'm not sure if that means the post and comments taken as a whole are something LW wants, or whether perhaps there was a better way to get the insights in your comments into the post itself.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 March 2012 05:21:54PM *  2 points [-]

Both of those seem like plausible inferences given your observation.
I also take it as evidence that LW's standards of evaluation for posts are very different than for comments.

That said, I suspect your observation is wrong. Given that each vote on a post is worth 10 karma, the post + comments is still a significant net karma loss at the time that I write this.

Comment author: Strange7 07 March 2012 08:16:15PM 0 points [-]

Last night it was down as low as -8. Currently it's at -2, which puts me back in net karma gain territory. I suspect the main post will continue to be upvoted as more people have time to think about it.