Hello everyone. So last week I tried my hand in writing blogs. Apparantly I wasnt very good at it and my first blog ended up getting -50 votes.
But that pathetic result didnt make me quit. I took a resolve to get better instead of merely hanging my boots.
So my last 3 blogs have had votes of -31, -28 and -18 respectively.
As it can clearly be seen, I'm improving gradually. Who knows, some time in the future my blogs may generate +200 votes.
Hoping for more improvement in next week.
Lol
"So my last 3 blogs have had votes of -23,-17 and -12 respectively" — that is because people didn't have enough time to downvote them ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
This guy is actually making an improvement :)
At least this blog shows some cute sense of humor and i'm going to upvote it (while I just ignored four previous).
Now I am waiting to see him making same fast improvement in problem solving)
Its not that hard to get positive contribution; I started here with -84 contribution at one point; Then I stopped being dumb and now my contribution is +37
Bredor told his story in this blog entry in russian, he was ranked last by contribution some time ago. As you can see, this is really impressive example of drastic improvement.
P.S. This Bredor's screenshot is a fake, but you may actually check +/- values of his old comments :D
Let's hope for math problems!
You seem obsessed with contribution, 4 out of your 5 blog posts (including this one) are about it. And the last one is about something quite offtopic on a programming site :D
As to why you're getting downvotes: the same happens to every blog (except contest announcements, maybe). Apparently, there are users that instadownvote everything, and a lot of other users that vote based on the current sum of votes, so unless a blog post gets upvoted by enough users right from the start, it'll go down. And to be honest, wasting a whole blog post to say one thing that nobody but you really cares about, isn't worth an upvote.
UPD: And I guess getting downvoted quickly just proves my point.
> -31, -28 and -18 respectively
I think you meant -28, -18 and -31 :^)
I simply dont understand why you get downvoted. This post is a prime example. Its realistic and nice, but a tad too long. Still doesnt explain the ~10 though.
Well, my post explains why I get downvoted — and people don't like getting the truth told about them.
Your content is fine, but when you present it, it just exhibits a bit of arrogance. I think thats what people dont like.
If you mean that I don't sugarcoat things and put content before presentation, then yes. But I still think it's more likely to be "I'll downvote the comment that says I'm downvoting everything, I'll prove it wrong this way!", especially because your explanation fails on Petr's blog posts (some of them got negative votes VERY quickly, but get back to positive eventually) or useful external contest announcements.
Btw further evidence that people vote based on the current sum of votes: your other blog posts keep getting downvotes, this one keeps getting upvotes. Why would anyone downvote a blog post that isn't in the Recent actions box and isn't even linked directly from here? It's a waste of a click, since it's not like many people will ever read a blog that's not in Recent actions... soon, nobody will care about this situation at all. And these aren't blog posts that'd make people really want to downvote them. There's no reason apart from seeing a lot of downvotes already.
I observe this a lot of time on some of my comments (but also other ones): they stay at 0 or slightly negative for some time, then they get positive votes steadily. Since negative votes up to -4 don't show, it means getting negative votes quickly after being posted. When the overall opinion is that a comment or blog post is good, why does that happen? I only see one explanation: auto-downvoting haters.
And CF voting is completely random in many cases. Take Swistakk's first comment above: in another situation, it could get downvoted a lot instead. In fact, there was once someone complaining about horrible shitposting after he made another joke in another thread and it got downvoted. Don't try to make sense of it.
Moral of the story: don't care about contribution.