I disapprove of the posting. Moreover, I oppose the active encouragement of barely coherent temper tantrums.
(In this case, I didn’t think my silent upvote was enough.)
Your upvote and then active expression of approval requires that I upgrade my silent downvoting of every comment that endorses, takes seriously or encourages the posting in question to a similar verbal expression. By way of contrast, if Multiheaded had thought through his frustrations and expressed them candidly while sober and after having got a grip on his emotions then I would encourage the expression. Rewarding tantrums with attention and approval is precisely the wrong thing to do. It tends to be bad both for the recipient and the community.
I fail to see how. I had an opinion about the thread, and in addition, an opinion about that opinion: that it was worth expressing. So I did. Others may disagree with either of those opinions (for example you), but they do not choose my actions. I do. What is the score in this hypothetical game? (It isn’t the karma rating of Multiheaded’s post.)
If you make your opinion more prominent by expressing it in a post instead of an upvote, you encourage others to do the same, thus lesswrong has more non-content posts and nothing much is accomplished by anyone. Since so far this thread has two posts of the type I describe, I guess the score is 1-1.
If you make your opinion more prominent by expressing it in a post instead of an upvote, you encourage others to do the same
Only in the language of political correctness. In the real world, encouraging others to do the same looks like this: “Hey everyone, post your opinion!”
Since so far this thread has two posts of the type I describe, I guess the score is 1-1.
This “score” is in your own head. Anyone can keep “score” by whatever rules they like. It is of no importance.
I approve of this posting.
(In this case, I didn’t think my silent upvote was enough.)
I disapprove of the posting. Moreover, I oppose the active encouragement of barely coherent temper tantrums.
Your upvote and then active expression of approval requires that I upgrade my silent downvoting of every comment that endorses, takes seriously or encourages the posting in question to a similar verbal expression. By way of contrast, if Multiheaded had thought through his frustrations and expressed them candidly while sober and after having got a grip on his emotions then I would encourage the expression. Rewarding tantrums with attention and approval is precisely the wrong thing to do. It tends to be bad both for the recipient and the community.
Be aware you’re playing a zero-sum game at best here.
I fail to see how. I had an opinion about the thread, and in addition, an opinion about that opinion: that it was worth expressing. So I did. Others may disagree with either of those opinions (for example you), but they do not choose my actions. I do. What is the score in this hypothetical game? (It isn’t the karma rating of Multiheaded’s post.)
If you make your opinion more prominent by expressing it in a post instead of an upvote, you encourage others to do the same, thus lesswrong has more non-content posts and nothing much is accomplished by anyone. Since so far this thread has two posts of the type I describe, I guess the score is 1-1.
Only in the language of political correctness. In the real world, encouraging others to do the same looks like this: “Hey everyone, post your opinion!”
This “score” is in your own head. Anyone can keep “score” by whatever rules they like. It is of no importance.
I concede, my original post was poorly thought out and sort of meaningless.