I should probably add that i’m looking for a positive and mutually-supporting LW-style community. But i’m sure other people would prefer a more brutally honest community. That’s fine and ideally we’ll all find sites that suit us in the end.
The prevalence of downvotes on LW at the moment is, I think, scarcely at all to do with having a brutally honest community; it’s to do with there being one person with a legion of sockpuppets who heavily downvotes people he doesn’t like.
I should probably add that i’m looking for a positive and mutually-supporting LW-style community. But i’m sure other people would prefer a more brutally honest community. That’s fine and ideally we’ll all find sites that suit us in the end.
The prevalence of downvotes on LW at the moment is, I think, scarcely at all to do with having a brutally honest community; it’s to do with there being one person with a legion of sockpuppets who heavily downvotes people he doesn’t like.