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I am guessing that this is actually the position that he took.
I voted up. I think the post is dumb, but it had enough down votes to go below threshold already, and it made me laugh.
I am not sure why I am being punished. l have 4 theories:
1) People think this kind of sarcastic humor is not appropriate for less wrong enough to punish me for disagreeing.
2) People think that my vote was influenced by the votes of other people, which is an action they are trying to discourage.
3) I have signaled alliance with a common enemy.
4) The act of publishing your votes potentially destroys anonymity.
Please let me know.
I think that you should vote things that you think are dumb down rather than up, and also agree with your (2) that you shouldn't let other people's votes influence you. However I didn't downvote the grandparent since that might only have the effect of stopping you talking about your voting.
You've presumably stated your reasoning in the grandparent to elicit feedback; the feedback you receive is in the form of that comment's karma score. Speculatively (I didn't vote), it's not a punishment but rather a "I disagree with upvoting posts based on sarcastic humor alone strongly enough (signal/noise and all that) that I will express my disagreement via voting when I encounter such a policy".
Don't make it personal by construing such feedback as "punishment".
That makes sense. Thanks. I was not trying to ask for feedback on my voting. There was a belief stating that I did not vote, so I corrected it. I can, however, see why it was interpreted that way. I didn't take it personally. "Punishment" seemed like the most accurate word, but I do not care that much. I was just surprised.
Welcome to LessWrong.
I think your LessWrong karma experience is very different from the average member, judging by the fact that your current 30-day karma is 12 with 52% positive. That is 144 down votes in 30 days.
Phil has considered that metric.
Also, it sparked a short conversation that I found interesting.