This is a misuse of the retraction feature. Don’t do this.
Even though my retracted comment can’t be downvoted, I’ve received 3 downvotes on other comments because of this.
In any case, if you don’t want people to work to the metric, why put the metric in place?
And for those students of psychology: was I downvoted because I misused the feature, or was I downvoted because I stated what I was doing? I have certainly prophylactically retracted comments before without being downvoted, but in those instances I didn’t say why I was retracting.
I’ll retract this comment too. If you want to downvote me for this it will cost you extra keystrokes. Is it really a good use of your lesswrong.com time?
Even though my retracted comment can’t be downvoted, I’ve received 3 downvotes on other comments because of this.
In any case, if you don’t want people to work to the metric, why put the metric in place?
And for those students of psychology: was I downvoted because I misused the feature, or was I downvoted because I stated what I was doing? I have certainly prophylactically retracted comments before without being downvoted, but in those instances I didn’t say why I was retracting.
I’ll retract this comment too. If you want to downvote me for this it will cost you extra keystrokes. Is it really a good use of your lesswrong.com time?