I share much of the same failings to be incentivised to comment as some of the other commenters here¹, but at the same time I was indeed motivated to finish up the draft I was working on, which is a bit of a contradiction even to myself. One obvious difference to me is that I was already planning on publishing my draft, and I was never remotely concerned that it was motivated by misaligned incentives; if it ended up getting an ungodly number of votes, then it must have just been that good.
For smaller comments I am much more concerned that attention is a rate-limited resource, and so comments often only provide value if they are better than the noise, and I am so used to seeing upvoted comments, not so much here but definitely pervasively elsewhere, that are nothing but noise. I do like that there is an incentive structure in place, and I also like that there is a meta-incentive for voters to be more discerning with their votes lest they incentivise the wrong strategies, but I don’t like feeling that there is an incentive to just comment more, just above the quality threshold. The part of me that wants to steadfastly reject bad incentives would rather that didn’t happen.
¹which when put like that sounds like a blatant lie
I share much of the same failings to be incentivised to comment as some of the other commenters here¹, but at the same time I was indeed motivated to finish up the draft I was working on, which is a bit of a contradiction even to myself. One obvious difference to me is that I was already planning on publishing my draft, and I was never remotely concerned that it was motivated by misaligned incentives; if it ended up getting an ungodly number of votes, then it must have just been that good.
For smaller comments I am much more concerned that attention is a rate-limited resource, and so comments often only provide value if they are better than the noise, and I am so used to seeing upvoted comments, not so much here but definitely pervasively elsewhere, that are nothing but noise. I do like that there is an incentive structure in place, and I also like that there is a meta-incentive for voters to be more discerning with their votes lest they incentivise the wrong strategies, but I don’t like feeling that there is an incentive to just comment more, just above the quality threshold. The part of me that wants to steadfastly reject bad incentives would rather that didn’t happen.
¹which when put like that sounds like a blatant lie
Minor: LessWrong supports native footnotes[1].
Though I applaud your likely-minor-but-non-zero effort in finding the ¹ character.
Thanks![1]
Here’s the secret: Linux’s character composition. AltGr ^1 → ¹
The arrow was ->. Ö is o”. € is C=. ≈ is ~~… ♥
More details: https://sjbyrnes.com/unicode.html