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Comment author: TheOtherDave 05 October 2012 02:55:37PM 12 points [-]

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.)

Comment author: magfrump 05 October 2012 08:36:58PM 9 points [-]

(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.)

Definitely this.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 October 2012 03:16:03PM *  6 points [-]

Attempted to reply to the upvoted child; got the warning (which, incidentally, warns about replying to downvoted comments, which might be confusing).

(There is a bug report about this issue.)

Comment author: [deleted] 06 October 2012 02:46:53PM 3 points [-]

(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.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 06 October 2012 03:08:34PM 1 point [-]

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.

Which sounds like it makes karma even less useful as feedback for you than for me.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 October 2012 04:13:29PM 1 point [-]

I do skim my user page to take a look at my recent comments' karma scores about once a day or so.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 06 October 2012 05:11:27PM 0 points [-]

(nods) I've concluded from a few rounds of attending to numbers that in a typical one-week period, I'm likely to see a digit or two of shift due to voting on old (knocked off my user page) comments.