So yes, Said, I am broadly opposed to substantially increasing the standards applied to each individual comment or paragraph. I am much more in favor of raising the amount of reward you can get for putting in remarkable amounts of effort and contributing great insights and knowledge.
After finishing writing, I did have a further note to add on where I actually think I am more open to raising standards.
As well as rewarding people more for their entire body of contributions to LessWrong, I am also more open to negatively judging people more for their entire body of contributions to LessWrong. Compare two users: one who writes a couple of 100+ karma posts per year but who also has occasional very snarky and rude comments, versus one who never writes snarky comments but always kind of doesn’t understand the dialogue and muddies the waters, and produces 100 comments each year. I think the latter has far more potential to be costly for the site, and the former has the potential to be far more valuable for the site, even though the worst comments of the former are much worse than the worst comments of the latter.
After finishing writing, I did have a further note to add on where I actually think I am more open to raising standards.
As well as rewarding people more for their entire body of contributions to LessWrong, I am also more open to negatively judging people more for their entire body of contributions to LessWrong. Compare two users: one who writes a couple of 100+ karma posts per year but who also has occasional very snarky and rude comments, versus one who never writes snarky comments but always kind of doesn’t understand the dialogue and muddies the waters, and produces 100 comments each year. I think the latter has far more potential to be costly for the site, and the former has the potential to be far more valuable for the site, even though the worst comments of the former are much worse than the worst comments of the latter.