New Year's Resolutions

You don't see anything wrong with posting two mutually-contradictory resolutions, one of which is an obvious reaction to downvoting? I downvoted Clippy on the metric of 'I would prefer to see less of this'. I don't actually care whether he justifies his opinions, but I do care whether people in the future are likely to reverse their opinion for the sole purpose of gaining forum approval.

wedrifid15y00

Let's not pretend the second comment was anything but a question. An attempt to elicit just what the sentiment means. See the punctuation if you have any doubt.

I downvoted Clippy on the metric of 'I would prefer to see less of this'.

If that was all you had done I would not have been disgusted that your comment was not subzero.

2TheOtherDave15y

Just to state the obvious: to the extent that your conditioning paradigm has an effect, it will cause someone primarily motivated by gaining forum approval, if they state an opinion that garners disapproval, will reverse their stated opinion and claim some other motive. Of course, if you don't actually care whether they are likely to reverse their opinion solely to gain approval, merely whether they are likely to say that that's what they're doing, then that should be OK.

See in context