This looks like two posts I saw quite a while ago where contrarian posts were also intended to be up-voted. I can’t seem to find those posts (searching for contrarian doesn’t match anything and searching for ‘vote’ is obviously useless). Nonetheless those posts urged to mark each contrarian comment to clearly indicate the opposite voting semantics to avoid unsuspecting readers being misled by the votes. Maybe someone can provide the links?
Now that there’s the karma toll, using downvotes to mean anything other than ‘I don’t think this comment or post belongs here’ is a bad idea. Also, now we have poll syntax.
I’d want to vote comments in this thread according to whether they’re interesting or boring, regardless of whether I agree with them.
My understanding is that this is explicitly meant not to be quite the same thing as the Irrationality Game. Specifically, in the IG the idea is to find things you think are more likely to be true than the LW consensus reckons them; here (I think) the idea is to find things you think are actually likely to be true despite the LW consensus.
This looks like two posts I saw quite a while ago where contrarian posts were also intended to be up-voted. I can’t seem to find those posts (searching for contrarian doesn’t match anything and searching for ‘vote’ is obviously useless). Nonetheless those posts urged to mark each contrarian comment to clearly indicate the opposite voting semantics to avoid unsuspecting readers being misled by the votes. Maybe someone can provide the links?
Now that there’s the karma toll, using downvotes to mean anything other than ‘I don’t think this comment or post belongs here’ is a bad idea. Also, now we have poll syntax.
I’d want to vote comments in this thread according to whether they’re interesting or boring, regardless of whether I agree with them.
I really wish there was a way to suspend the toll for irrationality game posts.
This could have been done by each commenter creating a poll in the comment, leaving normal voting for interest.
I only remember this one:
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/jvg/irrationality_game_iii/
Yupp. That one. Maybe the OP could change the title to include ‘irrationality’ (or add a tag) to stay in the original spirit.
My understanding is that this is explicitly meant not to be quite the same thing as the Irrationality Game. Specifically, in the IG the idea is to find things you think are more likely to be true than the LW consensus reckons them; here (I think) the idea is to find things you think are actually likely to be true despite the LW consensus.
That can only be answered by the OP.