The company Quixey has executives and a number of software engineers into Less Wrong. http://www.quixey.com/
Btw, I like this question, I think the downvotes might have been because your tone or linguistic patterns seem confrontational. A simple statement of the form “I’m curious because” would help, I think.
No, same copy. So my object+meta comment caused people to change their minds about the value of the question as is, or it would have flipped karma balance anyways.
I mean, it’s not that confrontational in the scheme of things, but I think what I really meant is that there were no softening or diminishing linguistic patterns. Comments on Less Wrong tend to do better when couched in the language of rational uncertainty. Phrases like “I think”, “maybe”, “possibly”, etc. There’s also an (unrational, imo) bias here against short posts. So I was thinking that one sort of softening sentence would make the post seem less decisive while also making it longer, making positive karma more likely by my metrics.
I see it at +6, but if it was below zero before, it was probably downvoted by some of the people who have seen the poster’s very confrontational, maybe even trollish comment that inspired the post.
The company Quixey has executives and a number of software engineers into Less Wrong. http://www.quixey.com/
Btw, I like this question, I think the downvotes might have been because your tone or linguistic patterns seem confrontational. A simple statement of the form “I’m curious because” would help, I think.
Was the OP edited? It certainly doesn’t seem confrontational to me now.
No, same copy. So my object+meta comment caused people to change their minds about the value of the question as is, or it would have flipped karma balance anyways.
I mean, it’s not that confrontational in the scheme of things, but I think what I really meant is that there were no softening or diminishing linguistic patterns. Comments on Less Wrong tend to do better when couched in the language of rational uncertainty. Phrases like “I think”, “maybe”, “possibly”, etc. There’s also an (unrational, imo) bias here against short posts. So I was thinking that one sort of softening sentence would make the post seem less decisive while also making it longer, making positive karma more likely by my metrics.
I see it at +6, but if it was below zero before, it was probably downvoted by some of the people who have seen the poster’s very confrontational, maybe even trollish comment that inspired the post.