Upvote what you want to encourage. I’ve upvoted most of the replies here; this post seems to have got an unusually good ratio of valuable replies (admittedly those replies are somewhat repetitive)
I think the range of appropriate policies is roughly from “upvote everything you regard as, on balance, a net positive contribution to LW” to “upvote things you regard as exceptionally high quality”. Indiscriminate upvoting (or downvoting) of everything in a particular discussion would be frowned on a bit, at least by me and anyone else whose brain happens to be identical to mine, but it’s not forbidden or anything.
Would it be appropriate to thumbs up everyone who contributed?
Upvote what you want to encourage. I’ve upvoted most of the replies here; this post seems to have got an unusually good ratio of valuable replies (admittedly those replies are somewhat repetitive)
I think the range of appropriate policies is roughly from “upvote everything you regard as, on balance, a net positive contribution to LW” to “upvote things you regard as exceptionally high quality”. Indiscriminate upvoting (or downvoting) of everything in a particular discussion would be frowned on a bit, at least by me and anyone else whose brain happens to be identical to mine, but it’s not forbidden or anything.