Ironically, this comment was actually extremely helpful. I certainly don’t downvote things that I think are bad ideas, only things that I think violate standards of discourse or are inappropriate for the venue in which they are posted.
If downvote is just being used as the “I disagree” or “I don’t like this” button, I think LessWrong has far bigger problems to deal with!
Why do you believe that explanatory comments work? Here we have an example of an explanatory comment from Larks that failed to communicate anything to you. On Chris’s recent series, we have hundreds of explanatory comments that failed to communicate anything to him.
Have you ever seen a productive use of the question “Did you even read my reply?”? Have you ever seen someone believe the answer “yes” to that question?
Ironically, this comment was actually extremely helpful. I certainly don’t downvote things that I think are bad ideas, only things that I think violate standards of discourse or are inappropriate for the venue in which they are posted.
If downvote is just being used as the “I disagree” or “I don’t like this” button, I think LessWrong has far bigger problems to deal with!
Why do you believe that explanatory comments work? Here we have an example of an explanatory comment from Larks that failed to communicate anything to you. On Chris’s recent series, we have hundreds of explanatory comments that failed to communicate anything to him.
Did you even read my reply? It literally starts with “this comment was actually extremely helpful.”
Have you ever seen a productive use of the question “Did you even read my reply?”? Have you ever seen someone believe the answer “yes” to that question?
Yes and yes.
Would you show me?