Actually I agree. It feels weird to see that one person upvoted my comment without knowing how many would have downvoted it. The same might apply to Duncan’s post, from the comments it seems like it was really polarizing, but the score only shows the 28 upvotes. If I may be allowed another reference to old LW, Eliezer used to advocate that people downvote more, ideally without replying. I think he saw it as a defense against noise and then left when the noise became too much.
You can get a clearer-if-still-imperfect sense from contrasting upvotes on parallel, opposing comments, e.g. it has 28 upvotes and 1029823904812309481320948blargltroll has 10. I highly doubt this would have ever received sufficient mass of downvotes to become invisible.
You can get a clearer-if-still-imperfect sense from contrasting upvotes on parallel,
I’m fairly certain that P(disagrees with blargtroll | disagrees with your proposal) >> P(agrees with blargtroll | disagrees with your proposal), simply because blargtroll’s counterargument is weak and its followups reveal some anger management issues.
For example, I would downvote both your proposal and blargtroll’s counterargument if I could—and by the Typical Mind heuristic so would everyone else :)
That said, I think you’re right in that this would not have received sufficiently many downvotes to become invisible.
Actually I agree. It feels weird to see that one person upvoted my comment without knowing how many would have downvoted it. The same might apply to Duncan’s post, from the comments it seems like it was really polarizing, but the score only shows the 28 upvotes. If I may be allowed another reference to old LW, Eliezer used to advocate that people downvote more, ideally without replying. I think he saw it as a defense against noise and then left when the noise became too much.
You can get a clearer-if-still-imperfect sense from contrasting upvotes on parallel, opposing comments, e.g. it has 28 upvotes and 1029823904812309481320948blargltroll has 10. I highly doubt this would have ever received sufficient mass of downvotes to become invisible.
I’m fairly certain that P(disagrees with blargtroll | disagrees with your proposal) >> P(agrees with blargtroll | disagrees with your proposal), simply because blargtroll’s counterargument is weak and its followups reveal some anger management issues.
For example, I would downvote both your proposal and blargtroll’s counterargument if I could—and by the Typical Mind heuristic so would everyone else :)
That said, I think you’re right in that this would not have received sufficiently many downvotes to become invisible.
First time I’ve heard it referred to as a heuristic. +1 =P