Well, I would say it’s a case of me taking an outside view (predicting use of voting on lesswrong based on multiple other similar communities with similar voting systems, like particular reddits), and you taking an inside view (predicting use of voting on lesswrong based on your perceived characteristics of lesswrong users).
If my interpretation of source of our disagreement is correct, I think outside view is much more likely to be accurate. And in case anybody wonders, I haven’t downvoted any comment on lesswrong ever (only one post I found uninteresting), but I might still be biased towards upvoting comments I disagree with less often than ones I agree with, so I might be biased in use of voting buttons too.
Well, I would say it’s a case of me taking an outside view (predicting use of voting on lesswrong based on multiple other similar communities with similar voting systems, like particular reddits), and you taking an inside view (predicting use of voting on lesswrong based on your perceived characteristics of lesswrong users).
If my interpretation of source of our disagreement is correct, I think outside view is much more likely to be accurate. And in case anybody wonders, I haven’t downvoted any comment on lesswrong ever (only one post I found uninteresting), but I might still be biased towards upvoting comments I disagree with less often than ones I agree with, so I might be biased in use of voting buttons too.