I think criticizing people’s upvotes/downvotes probably tends to lead to bad outcomes. (Citation needed, but this is what I currently believe)
Agreed. But as long as I’m personally forming lists of things that LW culture should get right that most internet culture fails at abysmally … I don’t know whether “users can criticize other users’ votes without the conversation being derailed into status fights” should be on that list or not.
There are certainly comments where the fact of their very high or very low karma scores seems to me to be meaningful evidence re: whether it makes sense to be hopeful about the LessWrong project in general.
Am gathering a little informal data on this on FB now; will report back later. (EDIT: 70 votes, 91% in favor of the position that votes themselves can be considered to be in error; no data collected on how to operationalize that in the social space.)
Agreed. But as long as I’m personally forming lists of things that LW culture should get right that most internet culture fails at abysmally … I don’t know whether “users can criticize other users’ votes without the conversation being derailed into status fights” should be on that list or not.
There are certainly comments where the fact of their very high or very low karma scores seems to me to be meaningful evidence re: whether it makes sense to be hopeful about the LessWrong project in general.
Am gathering a little informal data on this on FB now; will report back later. (EDIT: 70 votes, 91% in favor of the position that votes themselves can be considered to be in error; no data collected on how to operationalize that in the social space.)