Performed the following experiment:
Went to this comment, which has (right now) a score of -9 and a child with a score of +12 and a grandchild with a score of +4.
Recorded my karma score (9686).
Attempted to reply to the downvoted comment; got the warning. Didn't post a reply.
Attempted to reply to the upvoted child; got the warning (which, incidentally, warns about replying to downvoted comments, which might be confusing). Didn't post a reply.
Also performed the following experiment:
Went to this post, which has (right now) a score of -9 and some upvoted comments.
Recorded my karma score (9687).
Attempted to reply to the post, no warning.
Submitted this comment
Checked my karma score (9686). I assume the -1 is just because someone downvoted something in the minute or so it took me to do that.
(Incidentally, I would still love a feature where I could review recent upvotes and downvotes applied to me... to the extent that karma is intended as feedback for the poster, it helps to have some way of associating that feedback with the actual thing being evaluated. Knowing that I said something at some time that someone wants less of on LW doesn't really help me much.)
(Incidentally, I would still love a feature where I could review recent upvotes and downvotes applied to me... to the extent that karma is intended as feedback for the poster, it helps to have some way of associating that feedback with the actual thing being evaluated. Knowing that I said something at some time that someone wants less of on LW doesn't really help me much.)
As I think I said elsewhere, I no longer even bother to notice the last two digits in my total karma, or the last digit in my last-30-days karma.
I just found out that a new website feature was implemented 2 days ago. If a comment is voted to -4 or below, it and all replies and downstream comments from it will be hidden from Recent Comments, and further replies in that subthread will incur 5 karma points penalty. The hiding, but not karma penalty, applies retroactively to comments in that subthread posted before the -4 vote.
This seems to be worth a discussion post since most people are probably still voting things to below -3 without knowing the new consequences of doing so.