lesswrong is not completely there yet, but it’s steadily heading toward reddit’s “downvote to disagree”. It’s a natural consequence of reddit-style comment up/down-voting system, don’t think about it too much.
Strongly disagree about “don’t think about it too much,” but upvoted for pointing out this important problem. Everyone: upvote for useful discourse, not agreement!
“don’t think about it too much” as in “don’t think about things you cannot affect”. Unless you want to go and convince Eliezer to remove downvoting and leave only upvote and report links like on Hacker News.
This will leave more garbage in the comments of course, I think it’s smaller problem than “downvote to disagree”, but I have no strong evidence about it.
lesswrong is not completely there yet, but it’s steadily heading toward reddit’s “downvote to disagree”. It’s a natural consequence of reddit-style comment up/down-voting system, don’t think about it too much.
Strongly disagree about “don’t think about it too much,” but upvoted for pointing out this important problem. Everyone: upvote for useful discourse, not agreement!
“don’t think about it too much” as in “don’t think about things you cannot affect”. Unless you want to go and convince Eliezer to remove downvoting and leave only upvote and report links like on Hacker News.
This will leave more garbage in the comments of course, I think it’s smaller problem than “downvote to disagree”, but I have no strong evidence about it.
Unless or until we get separate voting for “agreement” vs. “quality”, as people have mentioned a few times.