Is xkcd "Think Logically" talking about this site?

summerstay

I think we could apply the lessons, anyway, but Munroe might have our community in mind specifically. The alt-text refers to emotional biases. I'm just curious if others got the same impression.

http://xkcd.com/1112/

I think we could apply the lessons, anyway, but Munroe might have our community in mind specifically. The alt-text refers to emotional biases. I'm just curious if others got the same impression.

http://xkcd.com/1112/

I agree, on reflection, that it is a sensible voting policy.

It is certainly simpler than mine, which under introspection, seems to be something like "upvote something that is quite below its proper score, downvote something that is quite above it, and don't bother when there is not much difference, with the deontological constraints of not upvoting when the deserved net score is negative, not downvoting when it is positive, upvoting ceteris paribus responses to myself, and probably further qualifications".

The main problem I have with voting to reach the proper score is that to do it well means either that

I'd have to constantly check all the posts I have voted on to see whether the score hasn't overshot and my vote isn't already moving the karma away from my desired value, or
I'd have to guess the future quasi-stable rating of the post and vote according to the difference of this guess from my desired score (assuming such a rating exists, i.e. that karma of posts or comments stops wildly fluctuating some time after they are published).

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