I downvoted a comment once. I happened to disagree with it, but I downvoted it because the reasoning seemed egregiously specious. However, I’m not sure that that can really be separated in people’s minds as much as they think. It could be that, in reality, the main reason was I disagreed with it.
I doubt that there’s any way around this. People are biased against being able to tell the difference, I’d wager. Less Wrong isn’t going to have any better voters than other community content sites. Just Another Slashdot. (Mind you, I do sometimes read Slashdot threads. It’s not a terrible system.)
I downvoted a comment once. I happened to disagree with it, but I downvoted it because the reasoning seemed egregiously specious. However, I’m not sure that that can really be separated in people’s minds as much as they think. It could be that, in reality, the main reason was I disagreed with it.
I doubt that there’s any way around this. People are biased against being able to tell the difference, I’d wager. Less Wrong isn’t going to have any better voters than other community content sites. Just Another Slashdot. (Mind you, I do sometimes read Slashdot threads. It’s not a terrible system.)