Timeline for Is there an actual "pity" or "sympathy" upvote problem?
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| Jun 1, 2011 at 14:21 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @fretje My personal thought pattern is, I don't care what motivates the person to vote, as long as their spirit in voting is upvoting what they find useful, and downvoting what they believe is not useful. The nature of how score works makes this happen in both directions - users refusing to upvote highly voted answers because they feel "It's high enough", or users refusing to downvote negative elements (but not upvoting) because "It's low enough". Voting to "balance" works much the same, though I hope that the majority who do it are still believing that the question deserves the upvote. | |
| Jun 1, 2011 at 14:17 | comment | added | fretje | @Grace: I guess we'll first have to settle on the definition then... IMO it's already pity voting when the person wouldn't do it if the score wasn't negative. | |
| Jun 1, 2011 at 14:17 | comment | added | Blorgbeard | @fretje it's not pity upvoting because it's not motivated by a feeling of pity. | |
| Jun 1, 2011 at 14:14 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @fretje I'd think pity upvoting is more, like Jeff's italic point, voting up "no matter how terrible or wrong it may be". | |
| Jun 1, 2011 at 14:11 | comment | added | fretje | "I will sometimes upvote a mediocre but not harmful/wrong answer if it is at -1, where I wouldn't have upvoted it if it were at zero." ==> if this isn't pity voting, then what is it exactly? IMO, this is almost the definition of pity voting... | |
| Jun 1, 2011 at 13:55 | history | answered | Blorgbeard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |