Is the karma system broken (or at least not designed to deal with this sort of thing)
On a forum called “LessWrong”, where you can infer that people prefer not to hold incorrect beliefs, you can understand how critics who point out when you are being wrong so that you can be less wrong would be upvoted.
Plus, I don’t think he has been uniformly abusive—times when he has gone ‘over the line’ do not represent a significant proportion of his postings on the site. Or so I perceive.
On a forum called “LessWrong”, where you can infer that people prefer not to hold incorrect beliefs, you can understand how critics who point out when you are being wrong so that you can be less wrong would be upvoted.
Plus, I don’t think he has been uniformly abusive—times when he has gone ‘over the line’ do not represent a significant proportion of his postings on the site. Or so I perceive.
Abusive?
Responding to Capla’s quote: