I downvoted this post not because I hate you, or because I love Eugine_Nier (o), but because I’d like to see fewer post like this one in the future. And I think that expressing my sentiment is what the “Downvote” button is for.
More specifically, I don’t think that public shaming and witch hunts belong on Less Wrong, even when the person being hunted is actually a witch (oo). I think that the toxic culture such tactics create is likely to be more harmful than individual unruly posters, in the long term.
(o) I don’t even remember who he is, though the name does sound familiar. (oo) Metaphorically speaking.
I downvoted this post not because I hate you, or because I love Eugine_Nier (o), but because I’d like to see fewer post like this one in the future. And I think that expressing my sentiment is what the “Downvote” button is for.
More specifically, I don’t think that public shaming and witch hunts belong on Less Wrong, even when the person being hunted is actually a witch (oo). I think that the toxic culture such tactics create is likely to be more harmful than individual unruly posters, in the long term.
(o) I don’t even remember who he is, though the name does sound familiar.
(oo) Metaphorically speaking.