I am still relatively new to LW, though—or else I’m just not very good at picking up on social values—so I’ll ask this question of you: What stigma would be attached to my decision to delete this post? I don’t want to do it just to get my Karma back; I’m willing to accept the consequences of my mistake. On the pro side, this would no longer come up under my posts, and so people who have not already seen it would fail to judge me by it. This is only a positive because I have in fact learned much from the response, and plan to act upon those lessons. On the con side, it might be viewed as… I almost want to say cowardly? Failing to take responsibility for my actions? Running away?
I’m not sure, though, what the implications of that action would be to the rest of the community, so I need an outside opinion.
EDIT: I recognize that it is good to recognize that I have made stupid decisions for bad reasons. I do not know if it is a virtue to keep your mistakes around and visible.
If this potential confusion is your real reason and not a convenient rationalization, I would suggest an EDIT along the lines of ” convinced me that was not a good one to hold, and I no longer think that Bayesian conspiracy is a good idea outside of the HPMoR fanfiction”. If you still hold that it is, then bear it like a rationalist you aspire to be, since you presumably examined this model of action with an utmost care, to avoid any biases.
EDIT: I certainly do not plan to delete my discussion post with negative karma, though I did retract (not delete) one rather poorly thought out comment previously.
I’m newer than you and have not yet braved into the “Main” section, so I don’t really know. I didn’t know deleting a post could get you the karma back, that seems like a bad policy and counterproductive to what karma is supposed to do.
Still, I think you’ve “learned your lesson”, so to speak, so I personally wouldn’t mind at all.
I am still relatively new to LW, though—or else I’m just not very good at picking up on social values—so I’ll ask this question of you: What stigma would be attached to my decision to delete this post? I don’t want to do it just to get my Karma back; I’m willing to accept the consequences of my mistake. On the pro side, this would no longer come up under my posts, and so people who have not already seen it would fail to judge me by it. This is only a positive because I have in fact learned much from the response, and plan to act upon those lessons. On the con side, it might be viewed as… I almost want to say cowardly? Failing to take responsibility for my actions? Running away?
I’m not sure, though, what the implications of that action would be to the rest of the community, so I need an outside opinion.
EDIT: I recognize that it is good to recognize that I have made stupid decisions for bad reasons. I do not know if it is a virtue to keep your mistakes around and visible.
Good, because it wouldn’t do that.
Oh, good. :3 I was worried that doing so would give that false implication.
If this potential confusion is your real reason and not a convenient rationalization, I would suggest an EDIT along the lines of ” convinced me that was not a good one to hold, and I no longer think that Bayesian conspiracy is a good idea outside of the HPMoR fanfiction”. If you still hold that it is, then bear it like a rationalist you aspire to be, since you presumably examined this model of action with an utmost care, to avoid any biases.
EDIT: I certainly do not plan to delete my discussion post with negative karma, though I did retract (not delete) one rather poorly thought out comment previously.
Ha! Now I feel like a noob. How do I edit a top-level post? :3
If you click on your nick, you will see it among your other posts, and you can edit it there, I suppose.
Thank you.
I’m newer than you and have not yet braved into the “Main” section, so I don’t really know. I didn’t know deleting a post could get you the karma back, that seems like a bad policy and counterproductive to what karma is supposed to do.
Still, I think you’ve “learned your lesson”, so to speak, so I personally wouldn’t mind at all.
Apparently it can’t, which is a good thing, upon reflection.