One position on voting which often gets endorsed here is “upvote what I want more of; downvote what I want less of.” By that standard, if you think the post is interesting and important, you should upvote it,whether you feel adequate to judge its technical content or not.
I feel that the policy you state is read once and ignored for whatever reason. A mere reminder on an individual basis seems unlikely to effectively address this issue: There are too many humble users who feel their mere vote is irrelevant and would cause undue bias.
I feel that this entire topic is one of critical importance because a failure to communicate on the part of rationalists is a failure to refine the art of rationality itself. While we want to foster discussion, we don’t want to become a raving mass not worth the effort of interacting with (à la reddit). If we are who we claim to be, that is, if we consider ourselves rationalists and consider the art of rationality worth practicing at all, then I would task any rationalist with participating to the best of their ability in these comments: This is an importation discussion we cannot afford to allow to pass by into obscurity.
upvote what I want more of, and downvote what I want less of
avoid voting on technical material I don’t think I can adequately judge
but I never noticed the tension between those two heuristics before. In practice I guess I prioritize #2. If I can’t (or can’t be bothered to) check over a technical comment, I usually don’t vote on it, however much I (dis)like it.
Well, it makes some sense to not vote if you genuinely don’t know whether you want more comments like that one (e.g. “I do if it’s accurate, I don’t if it isn’t, I don’t know which is true”)
One position on voting which often gets endorsed here is “upvote what I want more of; downvote what I want less of.”
By that standard, if you think the post is interesting and important, you should upvote it,whether you feel adequate to judge its technical content or not.
I feel that the policy you state is read once and ignored for whatever reason. A mere reminder on an individual basis seems unlikely to effectively address this issue: There are too many humble users who feel their mere vote is irrelevant and would cause undue bias.
I feel that this entire topic is one of critical importance because a failure to communicate on the part of rationalists is a failure to refine the art of rationality itself. While we want to foster discussion, we don’t want to become a raving mass not worth the effort of interacting with (à la reddit). If we are who we claim to be, that is, if we consider ourselves rationalists and consider the art of rationality worth practicing at all, then I would task any rationalist with participating to the best of their ability in these comments: This is an importation discussion we cannot afford to allow to pass by into obscurity.
Huh, interesting. I’d already noticed I try to
upvote what I want more of, and downvote what I want less of
avoid voting on technical material I don’t think I can adequately judge
but I never noticed the tension between those two heuristics before. In practice I guess I prioritize #2. If I can’t (or can’t be bothered to) check over a technical comment, I usually don’t vote on it, however much I (dis)like it.
Well, it makes some sense to not vote if you genuinely don’t know whether you want more comments like that one (e.g. “I do if it’s accurate, I don’t if it isn’t, I don’t know which is true”)