If it’s a draft, only you can see it. That’s what a draft is, in the terms of the software that runs this site. For anyone else to see it, you must publish it, although judging by what you’ve written so far I don’t have high hopes of the result.
You may agree or disagree, I respect that
That sounds like pre-emptively pressing the Ignore button on such disagreement. A disagreement is a problem. Some disagreements may be too trifling to be worth resolving, but disagreeing over whether there is a God is a rather large problem. It’s not something to which you can just say, “well, I believe this and you believe that, and that’s ok” without undermining the very activity of seeking the truth. Have you in fact anticipated such disagreement and want to avoid engaging with it?
Apparently I need a minimum of karma = 2 in order to publish in the discussion. Is there someone help me to have the opportunity to publish? Thank you.
If you read thesetwo articles and this sequence, I promise to upvote your comments enough that you will be able to post in the discussion section.
Some warnings:
*The sequence is kind of long.
*If you post the draft you’ve already written to discussion, it will probably be downvoted enough that you’ll have a hard time getting back the privilege to post articles.
*This, and the downvotes you’ve already received, are not because anyone is intimidated by your argument, or because they feel threatened by the possibility of your being right.
*The articles and sequence may be difficult for you to understand at this point.
However, if you do all this reading, and understand it, I think you will understand why you’ve been downvoted, and will be able to predict how your draft will be received.
I’ve edited to cancel my statement “Some people may feel intimidated by such an argument, and this can continue to turn off the post so that it collapsed (hidden).) I just want to make clear to someone of this type to appreciate and not easily turn off the post. I do not understand the lesswrong, whether some people who turn off an article by doing a few times downvoted, will result in an article not visible to all readers. But if downvoted for many times does not make an article to be collapsed, only to certain people, then it’s certainly a very good thing.”
I understand now. On LessWrong it’s about share honestly with the spirit of seeking truth. Thanks.
If it’s a draft, only you can see it. That’s what a draft is, in the terms of the software that runs this site. For anyone else to see it, you must publish it, although judging by what you’ve written so far I don’t have high hopes of the result.
That sounds like pre-emptively pressing the Ignore button on such disagreement. A disagreement is a problem. Some disagreements may be too trifling to be worth resolving, but disagreeing over whether there is a God is a rather large problem. It’s not something to which you can just say, “well, I believe this and you believe that, and that’s ok” without undermining the very activity of seeking the truth. Have you in fact anticipated such disagreement and want to avoid engaging with it?
Thank you Richard for reminding me. I am not suggesting for someone pressing Ignore button. I deleted my statement “You may agree or …..”
Thanks anyway. Actually I already submit, but still under “draft” condition. I’ll look around …
Apparently I need a minimum of karma = 2 in order to publish in the discussion. Is there someone help me to have the opportunity to publish? Thank you.
If you read these two articles and this sequence, I promise to upvote your comments enough that you will be able to post in the discussion section.
Some warnings:
*The sequence is kind of long.
*If you post the draft you’ve already written to discussion, it will probably be downvoted enough that you’ll have a hard time getting back the privilege to post articles.
*This, and the downvotes you’ve already received, are not because anyone is intimidated by your argument, or because they feel threatened by the possibility of your being right.
*The articles and sequence may be difficult for you to understand at this point.
However, if you do all this reading, and understand it, I think you will understand why you’ve been downvoted, and will be able to predict how your draft will be received.
I really like that lesswrong have the spirit of seeking truth. That’s why I change the comment to conform with the spirit of seeking truth.
I read all as you suggested, that’s great. Thanks.
I’m glad you took the time to check it out. Karma disbursed.
Thank you I already submitted on http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/51d/there_is_god/
I’ve edited to cancel my statement “Some people may feel intimidated by such an argument, and this can continue to turn off the post so that it collapsed (hidden).) I just want to make clear to someone of this type to appreciate and not easily turn off the post. I do not understand the lesswrong, whether some people who turn off an article by doing a few times downvoted, will result in an article not visible to all readers. But if downvoted for many times does not make an article to be collapsed, only to certain people, then it’s certainly a very good thing.”
I understand now. On LessWrong it’s about share honestly with the spirit of seeking truth. Thanks.
Re: the voting system:
People who like your post/comment and want more like it can upvote it.
People who dislike it or want less like it can downvote it.
Comments where downvotes = upvotes + 3 are collapsed by default, as are all child comments under them, and people have to choose to see them.
Re: “intimidated”… I’m choosing for now to consider that word-choice an artifact of your being a non-native English speaker.