Hi, shminux. I recently downvoted this comment of yours. I did recognize you, but that’s from seeing you in the lesswrong IRC channel, where you make a significant portion of the interesting discussion, not from lesswrong.com, where I don’t generally look at the authors of comments or posts unless I’m having trouble following a discussion or I feel that it would be prudent to associate the author with their comment or post (for instance, I learned the name of user Nisan after they posted Formulas of Arithmetic That Behave Like Decision Agents, which contained a splendidly unusual amount of math for lw). I was particularly surprised by the low quality of your arguments in that thread, given my past experience with you. Still, I disliked one of your comments first, and saw your name second.
I also responded to one of your comments in that thread, here. I didn’t further downvote your comments, because I make a point of not downvoting people whom I’ve engaged in discussion, just as a point of argumentative hygiene. Absent that, I might have downvoted every comment of yours that I read, without reply. I don’t have any problem downvoting silently. It might be a polite norm to give feedback to any post or comment of low quality, but it is not a good use of my time in general, certainly not for that thread, in which many people were responding to you with comments to the effect that your conclusions were sloppy or informal. If other people behave as I do, then I would guess it was not one person who downvoted you, but a few people who did, and that the downvotes were given on the basis of your comments, rather than on who you are.
Thank you for your feedback! Upvoted. Though I don’t believe I ever commented on the thread you mention. Maybe you mean some other thread. I’d also appreciate if you elaborate on what in particular constitutes “low quality” for you.
Hi, shminux. I recently downvoted this comment of yours. I did recognize you, but that’s from seeing you in the lesswrong IRC channel, where you make a significant portion of the interesting discussion, not from lesswrong.com, where I don’t generally look at the authors of comments or posts unless I’m having trouble following a discussion or I feel that it would be prudent to associate the author with their comment or post (for instance, I learned the name of user Nisan after they posted Formulas of Arithmetic That Behave Like Decision Agents, which contained a splendidly unusual amount of math for lw). I was particularly surprised by the low quality of your arguments in that thread, given my past experience with you. Still, I disliked one of your comments first, and saw your name second.
I also responded to one of your comments in that thread, here. I didn’t further downvote your comments, because I make a point of not downvoting people whom I’ve engaged in discussion, just as a point of argumentative hygiene. Absent that, I might have downvoted every comment of yours that I read, without reply. I don’t have any problem downvoting silently. It might be a polite norm to give feedback to any post or comment of low quality, but it is not a good use of my time in general, certainly not for that thread, in which many people were responding to you with comments to the effect that your conclusions were sloppy or informal. If other people behave as I do, then I would guess it was not one person who downvoted you, but a few people who did, and that the downvotes were given on the basis of your comments, rather than on who you are.
Thank you for your feedback! Upvoted. Though I don’t believe I ever commented on the thread you mention. Maybe you mean some other thread. I’d also appreciate if you elaborate on what in particular constitutes “low quality” for you.