There’s a pretty good level of rational discussion here, better than in most online fora I know of.
Some people are pretty trigger-happy with the downvotes (and some get so worked up over political disagreements that they will go back and downvote many random unrelated comments of yours from the past—but that’s near-universally agreed to be bad and tends to get them banned eventually) but nowhere’s perfect. And I think the majority of downvotes are genuinely deserved, though I can’t see how anything in this thread deserves them.
That’s a very good summary of Caves’ argument, thanks for providing it.
EDIT: I upvoted you, but now I see someone else has downvoted you. As with me, no reason was given.
I am new here at LW. I thought it would be a place for rational discussion. Apparently, however, this is not a universally held belief here.
There’s a pretty good level of rational discussion here, better than in most online fora I know of.
Some people are pretty trigger-happy with the downvotes (and some get so worked up over political disagreements that they will go back and downvote many random unrelated comments of yours from the past—but that’s near-universally agreed to be bad and tends to get them banned eventually) but nowhere’s perfect. And I think the majority of downvotes are genuinely deserved, though I can’t see how anything in this thread deserves them.