It’s still a norm, but at least for me, I won’t downvote if I think the post was high quality. For example, I strong upvote all of Zvi’s Covid posts. On the other hand, I strong downvoted the Heard/Depp post from the the other week because I found it shallow and toxic.
I would strongly advise against posting on such topics until you’ve been around longer and written more on less charged subjects. You will almost certainly mess up if you try to do it right out of the gate, and nobody will give you the benefit of the doubt since you won’t have a reputation to protect you.
I’m not an active rationalist anymore but I’ve ‘been around’ for a decade. Sometimes I occasionally post on LessWrong still because it’s interesting or valuable enough for some subjects. That the rationality community functions the way you describe and the norms that entails is an example of why I don’t participate in the rationality community as much anymore. Thank you, though, for the feedback.
It’s still a norm, but at least for me, I won’t downvote if I think the post was high quality. For example, I strong upvote all of Zvi’s Covid posts. On the other hand, I strong downvoted the Heard/Depp post from the the other week because I found it shallow and toxic.
I would strongly advise against posting on such topics until you’ve been around longer and written more on less charged subjects. You will almost certainly mess up if you try to do it right out of the gate, and nobody will give you the benefit of the doubt since you won’t have a reputation to protect you.
I’m not an active rationalist anymore but I’ve ‘been around’ for a decade. Sometimes I occasionally post on LessWrong still because it’s interesting or valuable enough for some subjects. That the rationality community functions the way you describe and the norms that entails is an example of why I don’t participate in the rationality community as much anymore. Thank you, though, for the feedback.