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With some round of the vote tweaks they did earlier this year it seemed like there was a huge amount of extra volatility injected in the early up/downvotes. Alm
by stormbrew 12y ago
With some round of the vote tweaks they did earlier this year it seemed like there was a huge amount of extra volatility injected in the early up/downvotes. Almost any comment on how a comment has been voted down seems to wind up wrong within a half hour or so. And this happens quite a lot.
- derefr 12y agoI have a running hypothesis that those particular "wow, this is receiving a lot of downvotes" comments cause upvotes to the post they're attached to. (Unless they're by the original author of the downvoted post; then they just cause snotty arguments.) If you cared a lot about Internet Points, I'm betting keeping a sockpuppet acccount just to post "why was [master]'s post downvoted?" comments would be one of the highest-ROI things you could do to get more of them.
- stormbrew 12y agoYeah, I had considered this, but I can't imagine the effect continuing beyond the un-greying of the parent post. I can see it rallying to that point, though. I should also note that I've seen a lot of early-greyed posts come back from the dead after 30 minutes or so even without the "omgwtfisgoingon" posts underneath them as well. Sometimes even becoming clear winners on their strata of the post's comments.