This post has gone from −4, 0% positive to 8, 64% positive since I last looked at it. This is suspicious in and of itself.
This is recently a repeating pattern.
I consider it much less harmful than strategic downvoting of opponents (at least the innocent bystanders don’t get caught in the crossfire), but I would prefer if people who get negative feedback learned from it, instead of organizing an upvote brigade.
The line between “I upvote this comment because I like it” and “I upvote this comment because it comes from my tribe” is very thin, sometimes invisible, because people usually do genuinely like comments expressing the ideas of their tribe. I just hope that individuals who prefer to read this website will realize that the absence of tribality is what contributes to its quality.
The proper solution for having a website that follows the values of some tribe is to create another website. It is not impossible to create another website that rationalists will read: see Slate Star Codex. Unless you expect that rationalists would not be interested in reading a website of your tribe. In which case it shouldn’t be a surprise that they are also not interested in reading the same kind of content on LessWrong.
but I would prefer if people who get negative feedback learned from it, instead of organizing an upvote brigade.
Its more than this—if people don’t realise that upvote brigades exist (probably using sockpuppets) then it gives the impression that a substantial proportion of LWers endorse mass murder.
It is not impossible to create another website that rationalists will read: see Slate Star Codex.
Also, Ozy’s blog has unmoderated discussion where advocating genocide is ok, there’s ‘more right’ etc.
This is recently a repeating pattern.
I consider it much less harmful than strategic downvoting of opponents (at least the innocent bystanders don’t get caught in the crossfire), but I would prefer if people who get negative feedback learned from it, instead of organizing an upvote brigade.
The line between “I upvote this comment because I like it” and “I upvote this comment because it comes from my tribe” is very thin, sometimes invisible, because people usually do genuinely like comments expressing the ideas of their tribe. I just hope that individuals who prefer to read this website will realize that the absence of tribality is what contributes to its quality.
The proper solution for having a website that follows the values of some tribe is to create another website. It is not impossible to create another website that rationalists will read: see Slate Star Codex. Unless you expect that rationalists would not be interested in reading a website of your tribe. In which case it shouldn’t be a surprise that they are also not interested in reading the same kind of content on LessWrong.
Its more than this—if people don’t realise that upvote brigades exist (probably using sockpuppets) then it gives the impression that a substantial proportion of LWers endorse mass murder.
Also, Ozy’s blog has unmoderated discussion where advocating genocide is ok, there’s ‘more right’ etc.