No, it shows that a lot of people upvote comments disagreeing with this post. Downvoted threads usually get a lot of upvotes for commenters explaining what the OP is doing wrong. It helps signal to the OP that they are wrong and that the commenter’s explanation is correct. The sad side effect, which Eliezer is so opposed to is that these upvotes encourage feeding the trolls. Up until now, I was thoroughly unconvinced that this was a problem, but this thread and this one are convincing me otherwise, which was the point of my comment.
As a side point, the grandparent is on the top comments today list too… So if your criteria for “people agree with and support this comment” is “is on Top Comments Today” then you’ve run into a paradox.
Tangentially, some of those comments are at 0 karma, and are still on that list. This doesn’t make much sense to me, but honestly I’ve never looked at that feature before, and probably will continue not to.
Tangentially, some of those comments are at 0 karma, and are still on that list. This doesn’t make much sense to me, but honestly I’ve never looked at that feature before, and probably will continue not to.
I had only looked at the first couple screenfuls of the list when replying to you, and most comments were from this thread and upvoted quite a bit. Anyway, the thing does occasionally misplace comments (e.g. heavily downvoted comments mysteriously in the middle of it), though I think that when there are lots of zero-karma comments at the bottom there really aren’t any more upvoted comments from the last 24 hours.
No, it shows that a lot of people upvote comments disagreeing with this post. Downvoted threads usually get a lot of upvotes for commenters explaining what the OP is doing wrong. It helps signal to the OP that they are wrong and that the commenter’s explanation is correct. The sad side effect, which Eliezer is so opposed to is that these upvotes encourage feeding the trolls. Up until now, I was thoroughly unconvinced that this was a problem, but this thread and this one are convincing me otherwise, which was the point of my comment.
As a side point, the grandparent is on the top comments today list too… So if your criteria for “people agree with and support this comment” is “is on Top Comments Today” then you’ve run into a paradox.
Tangentially, some of those comments are at 0 karma, and are still on that list. This doesn’t make much sense to me, but honestly I’ve never looked at that feature before, and probably will continue not to.
I had only looked at the first couple screenfuls of the list when replying to you, and most comments were from this thread and upvoted quite a bit. Anyway, the thing does occasionally misplace comments (e.g. heavily downvoted comments mysteriously in the middle of it), though I think that when there are lots of zero-karma comments at the bottom there really aren’t any more upvoted comments from the last 24 hours.
If people thought it’s bad to feed the trolls, even when disagreeing with them, they’d downvote all replies to trolls.