Meta note: I have a variety of disagreements with various statements and premises in this post. However, I believe it is a well-written honestly intended discussion of important issues. Therefore, I am karma upvoting it because I value having the discussion. I am distressed to see that others have karma-downvoted it, and think that this is a good argument for having agree/disagree voting on posts. This seems to me to be a clear candidate for a post on which I would karma-upvote, but agreement-downvote. And I suspect that many of the karma-downvoters are actually downvoting because of disagreement. Thus, this social dynamic is stifling valuable debate on an important subject. I recommend adding agree/disagree voting to posts in order to fix this unhealthy social dynamic.
It would also be much more helpful – to me, to others, and to the community’s discussion – if people would, rather than just downvoting because they disagree, leave a comment making it clear what they disagree with, or if that’s too much effort just use one of the means LW provides for marking a section that you disagree with. Maybe I’m wrong here, and they could persuade me of that (others have before) — or maybe there are aspects of this that I haven’t explained well, or gaps in my argument that I could attempt to fill, or that I might then conclude are unfillable. The point of LW is to have a discussion, not just to reflexively downvote things you disagree with.
Now, if this in in fact just badly-written specious nonsense, then please go ahead and downvote it. I fully admit that I dashed it off quickly in the excitement of having the idea.
Meta note: I have a variety of disagreements with various statements and premises in this post. However, I believe it is a well-written honestly intended discussion of important issues. Therefore, I am karma upvoting it because I value having the discussion. I am distressed to see that others have karma-downvoted it, and think that this is a good argument for having agree/disagree voting on posts. This seems to me to be a clear candidate for a post on which I would karma-upvote, but agreement-downvote. And I suspect that many of the karma-downvoters are actually downvoting because of disagreement. Thus, this social dynamic is stifling valuable debate on an important subject. I recommend adding agree/disagree voting to posts in order to fix this unhealthy social dynamic.
It would also be much more helpful – to me, to others, and to the community’s discussion – if people would, rather than just downvoting because they disagree, leave a comment making it clear what they disagree with, or if that’s too much effort just use one of the means LW provides for marking a section that you disagree with. Maybe I’m wrong here, and they could persuade me of that (others have before) — or maybe there are aspects of this that I haven’t explained well, or gaps in my argument that I could attempt to fill, or that I might then conclude are unfillable. The point of LW is to have a discussion, not just to reflexively downvote things you disagree with.
Now, if this in in fact just badly-written specious nonsense, then please go ahead and downvote it. I fully admit that I dashed it off quickly in the excitement of having the idea.