Instead, I’ll request that people not upvote the Bozo button, as I am looking for a quorum number of “is a bozo” votes.
I suspected as much, but again I reiterate that a large majority of us want you to stay around; although you disagree with us on some points we find uncontroversial among rationalists, you’re nonetheless intelligent and arguing in good faith, and these things happen. I submit that a Non-Bozo button would get many more votes (including mine) than the above Bozo Button.
Thanks for the Non-Bozo button, which your comment effectively is. Counting yourself, since you couldn’t up-vote your own button, the Non-Bozo and Bozo buttons cancel out with 4 votes each. (At the time of this comment.)
At least one person has voted down orthonormal’s post. I don’t think using the moderation system to measure this sort of thing is going to work; instead, it will attract trolls who don’t really care but want to screw with the system for the hell of it.
(I say stay. Intelligent dissenters are vital to this community, even if their positions turn out to be incorrect, provided they’re argued in good faith.)
You may also want to post a Byrnema Non-Bozo Button for upvoting, to keep upvotes and downvotes from canceling on the above.
Instead, I’ll request that people not upvote the Bozo button, as I am looking for a quorum number of “is a bozo” votes.
Psy-kosh: It’s OK, I just thought I should have one.
I suspected as much, but again I reiterate that a large majority of us want you to stay around; although you disagree with us on some points we find uncontroversial among rationalists, you’re nonetheless intelligent and arguing in good faith, and these things happen. I submit that a Non-Bozo button would get many more votes (including mine) than the above Bozo Button.
Thanks for the Non-Bozo button, which your comment effectively is. Counting yourself, since you couldn’t up-vote your own button, the Non-Bozo and Bozo buttons cancel out with 4 votes each. (At the time of this comment.)
At least one person has voted down orthonormal’s post. I don’t think using the moderation system to measure this sort of thing is going to work; instead, it will attract trolls who don’t really care but want to screw with the system for the hell of it.
(I say stay. Intelligent dissenters are vital to this community, even if their positions turn out to be incorrect, provided they’re argued in good faith.)