You are a rational and reasonable person. Why not speak up about what is happening here? Rob is making a spirited defense of his essay, over on his blog, and I have just posted a detailed critique that really nails down the core of the argument that is supposed to be happening here.
And yet, if you look closely you will find that all of my comments—be they as neutral, as sensible or as rational as they can be—are receiving negative votes so fast that they are disappearing to the bottom of the stack or being suppressed completely.
What a bizarre situation!! This article that RobbBB submitted to LessWrong is supposed to be ABOUT my own article on the IEET website. My article is the actual TOPIC here! And yet I, the author of that article, have been insulted here by Eliezer Yudkowsky, and my comments suppressed. Amazing, don’t you think?
Richard: On LessWrong, comments are sorted by how many thumbs up and thumbs down they get, because it makes it easier to find the most popular posts quickly. If a post gets −4 points or lower, it gets compressed to make room for more popular posts, and to discourage flame wars. (You can still un-compress it by just clicking the + in the upper right corner of the comment.) At the moment, some of Eliezer’s comments and yours have both been down-voted and compressed in this way, presumably because people on the site thought the personal attacks weren’t useful for the conversation as a whole.
People are probably also down-voting your comments because they’re histrionic and don’t reflect an understanding of this forum’s mechanics. I recommend only making points about the substance of people’s arguments; if you have personal complaints, take it to a private channel so it doesn’t add to the noise surrounding the arguments themselves.
Phil,
You are a rational and reasonable person. Why not speak up about what is happening here? Rob is making a spirited defense of his essay, over on his blog, and I have just posted a detailed critique that really nails down the core of the argument that is supposed to be happening here.
And yet, if you look closely you will find that all of my comments—be they as neutral, as sensible or as rational as they can be—are receiving negative votes so fast that they are disappearing to the bottom of the stack or being suppressed completely.
What a bizarre situation!! This article that RobbBB submitted to LessWrong is supposed to be ABOUT my own article on the IEET website. My article is the actual TOPIC here! And yet I, the author of that article, have been insulted here by Eliezer Yudkowsky, and my comments suppressed. Amazing, don’t you think?
Richard: On LessWrong, comments are sorted by how many thumbs up and thumbs down they get, because it makes it easier to find the most popular posts quickly. If a post gets −4 points or lower, it gets compressed to make room for more popular posts, and to discourage flame wars. (You can still un-compress it by just clicking the + in the upper right corner of the comment.) At the moment, some of Eliezer’s comments and yours have both been down-voted and compressed in this way, presumably because people on the site thought the personal attacks weren’t useful for the conversation as a whole.
People are probably also down-voting your comments because they’re histrionic and don’t reflect an understanding of this forum’s mechanics. I recommend only making points about the substance of people’s arguments; if you have personal complaints, take it to a private channel so it doesn’t add to the noise surrounding the arguments themselves.