It’s perhaps worth noting that, whatever internal function people use to decide how to vote, the effect of their votes is to make up-voted things more visible and make down-voted things less visible on the margin, and this sends a feedback signal to incentivize writing things that get up-voted to the extent you want your writing to be seen by more people.
Under this regime, rate limiting seems fair to me, as it’s an extension of controlling how much marginal content you produce can be seen. I’m not sure if it’s perfectly well tuned, but seems likely that it’s having a useful effect of causing there to be fewer things on Less Wrong that Less Wrong readers don’t want to read, and even as salty as I get about it when I think my own insights are under-appreciated or misunderstood, I still accept that’s just part of how Less Wrong has to work given that, at least for now, it’s got to determine quality based on the aggregation of low-bandwidth signals.
It’s perhaps worth noting that, whatever internal function people use to decide how to vote, the effect of their votes is to make up-voted things more visible and make down-voted things less visible on the margin, and this sends a feedback signal to incentivize writing things that get up-voted to the extent you want your writing to be seen by more people.
Under this regime, rate limiting seems fair to me, as it’s an extension of controlling how much marginal content you produce can be seen. I’m not sure if it’s perfectly well tuned, but seems likely that it’s having a useful effect of causing there to be fewer things on Less Wrong that Less Wrong readers don’t want to read, and even as salty as I get about it when I think my own insights are under-appreciated or misunderstood, I still accept that’s just part of how Less Wrong has to work given that, at least for now, it’s got to determine quality based on the aggregation of low-bandwidth signals.