This seems like a really bad idea. If it happened to me, I’d just leave. I’m not looking for echo chambers, and I often am motivated to come out of lurking and say something when my view is contrarian. That’s just who I am. Such comments often get downvoted by senior people. That’s just how contrary views are handled in online communities.
Is this not what LW wants? Then I guess I’ll just delete my account and go somewhere else.
De-facto I think people are pretty good about not downvoting contrarian takes (splitting up/downvote from agree/disagree vote helped a lot in improving this).
But also, we do have a manual review step to catch the cases where people get downvoted because of tribal dynamics and object-level disagreements (that’s where at least a chunk of the 40% where we didn’t apply the rule above came from).
This seems like a really bad idea. If it happened to me, I’d just leave. I’m not looking for echo chambers, and I often am motivated to come out of lurking and say something when my view is contrarian. That’s just who I am. Such comments often get downvoted by senior people. That’s just how contrary views are handled in online communities.
Is this not what LW wants? Then I guess I’ll just delete my account and go somewhere else.
De-facto I think people are pretty good about not downvoting contrarian takes (splitting up/downvote from agree/disagree vote helped a lot in improving this).
But also, we do have a manual review step to catch the cases where people get downvoted because of tribal dynamics and object-level disagreements (that’s where at least a chunk of the 40% where we didn’t apply the rule above came from).