It feels like people mainly gain status from making posts, not comments. And it’s harder to make a post that primarily points out a lack of skepticism / care. For example, while I am here disagreeing via a comment, doing so will be negligible to my status. I’d be better off posting about some interesting topic… but posting is harder!
My early posts on LW often consisted of pointing out places in the Sequences where Eliezer wasn’t careful enough. Shut Up and Divide? and Boredom vs. Scope Insensitivity come to mind. And of course that’s not the only way to gain status here—the big status awards are given for coming up with novel ideas and backing them up with carefully constructed arguments.
It feels like people mainly gain status from making posts, not comments. And it’s harder to make a post that primarily points out a lack of skepticism / care. For example, while I am here disagreeing via a comment, doing so will be negligible to my status. I’d be better off posting about some interesting topic… but posting is harder!
My early posts on LW often consisted of pointing out places in the Sequences where Eliezer wasn’t careful enough. Shut Up and Divide? and Boredom vs. Scope Insensitivity come to mind. And of course that’s not the only way to gain status here—the big status awards are given for coming up with novel ideas and backing them up with carefully constructed arguments.