Meta remark: I don’t understand the thing where I post something on my personal blog, explicitely write that it is speculation and I want other people’s insights, and get immediately downvoted. This is exactly the sort of thing I hated about the old LessWrong and that IMO contributed to its demise.
Now it seems that other people upvoted it. Maybe I should just not look at the score until some time after posting. Btw, it might be a nice feature to hide it for some time automatically (that would also have the benefit of helping early readers to form an unbiased opinion.)
Votes aren’t supposed to be unbiased. When a post is negatively voted and I don’t think it should be negatively voted but I also don’t think it’s very great, having the information will get me to cast an upvote vote that I otherwise wouldn’t have and that’s good.
Strongly agree. This is really a discussion for meta so maybe bring it up there but might make sense to disable downvotes on stuff not on the front page.
Strongly disagree. I mean, I am okay with this specific article, but a ban on downvotes anywhere on LW is a bad idea. There needs to be a way to express “this stuff does not belong to LW”. Not even a personal blog on LW should be literally “anything goes”.
Meta remark: I don’t understand the thing where I post something on my personal blog, explicitely write that it is speculation and I want other people’s insights, and get immediately downvoted. This is exactly the sort of thing I hated about the old LessWrong and that IMO contributed to its demise.
Mod team is having a discussion about this, but in the meantime, note that only front page posts affect your karma total.
Now it seems that other people upvoted it. Maybe I should just not look at the score until some time after posting. Btw, it might be a nice feature to hide it for some time automatically (that would also have the benefit of helping early readers to form an unbiased opinion.)
Votes aren’t supposed to be unbiased. When a post is negatively voted and I don’t think it should be negatively voted but I also don’t think it’s very great, having the information will get me to cast an upvote vote that I otherwise wouldn’t have and that’s good.
Strongly agree. This is really a discussion for meta so maybe bring it up there but might make sense to disable downvotes on stuff not on the front page.
Strongly disagree. I mean, I am okay with this specific article, but a ban on downvotes anywhere on LW is a bad idea. There needs to be a way to express “this stuff does not belong to LW”. Not even a personal blog on LW should be literally “anything goes”.