No, same copy. So my object+meta comment caused people to change their minds about the value of the question as is, or it would have flipped karma balance anyways.
I mean, it’s not that confrontational in the scheme of things, but I think what I really meant is that there were no softening or diminishing linguistic patterns. Comments on Less Wrong tend to do better when couched in the language of rational uncertainty. Phrases like “I think”, “maybe”, “possibly”, etc. There’s also an (unrational, imo) bias here against short posts. So I was thinking that one sort of softening sentence would make the post seem less decisive while also making it longer, making positive karma more likely by my metrics.
Was the OP edited? It certainly doesn’t seem confrontational to me now.
No, same copy. So my object+meta comment caused people to change their minds about the value of the question as is, or it would have flipped karma balance anyways.
I mean, it’s not that confrontational in the scheme of things, but I think what I really meant is that there were no softening or diminishing linguistic patterns. Comments on Less Wrong tend to do better when couched in the language of rational uncertainty. Phrases like “I think”, “maybe”, “possibly”, etc. There’s also an (unrational, imo) bias here against short posts. So I was thinking that one sort of softening sentence would make the post seem less decisive while also making it longer, making positive karma more likely by my metrics.