The “Preferences” button is worth exploring. In particular, the anti-kibitzer will hide usernames so that you can vote without being biased by your overall like or dislike of various users.
Note on the anti-kibitzer: I use it by default, and find that it prevents me from getting to know the individual users and their views. Although I have gotten to the point where I can sometimes recognize certain posters from their content (Eliezer, Clippy, and Wedrifid mostly).
Although I have gotten to the point where I can sometimes recognize certain posters from their content (Eliezer, Clippy, and Wedrifid mostly).
Some anti-kibitzer users have reported mistaking me for clippy at times! :D
I don’t use anti-kibitzer so I have to allow for hindsight bias—but I’d be willing to bet that I could pick nearly every comment by HughRistik and, if reading with the context as opposed to just the recent comments feed, most of Vladimir_Nesov’s too. Oh, and a lot from Perplexed and timtyler. Picking Alicorn’s posts based on most of them these days being ‘speaking as the Word of God on Luminosity fiction’ would just seem like cheating. ;)
The “Preferences” button is worth exploring. In particular, the anti-kibitzer will hide usernames so that you can vote without being biased by your overall like or dislike of various users.
Note on the anti-kibitzer: I use it by default, and find that it prevents me from getting to know the individual users and their views. Although I have gotten to the point where I can sometimes recognize certain posters from their content (Eliezer, Clippy, and Wedrifid mostly).
Some anti-kibitzer users have reported mistaking me for clippy at times! :D
I don’t use anti-kibitzer so I have to allow for hindsight bias—but I’d be willing to bet that I could pick nearly every comment by HughRistik and, if reading with the context as opposed to just the recent comments feed, most of Vladimir_Nesov’s too. Oh, and a lot from Perplexed and timtyler. Picking Alicorn’s posts based on most of them these days being ‘speaking as the Word of God on Luminosity fiction’ would just seem like cheating. ;)