This is probably possible, but I wouldn’t use it. I WANT comments to conform on many dimensions (clarity of thought, non-attack framing of other users, verbose enough to be clear, not so verbose as to waste time or obscure the point, etc.). I don’t want them to (necessarily) conform on content or ideas, but the first desire outweighs the second by quite a bit, and I think for many voters/reactors, it is used that way.
I don’t know whether metachirality was thinking of a setting for authors or for commenters. What makes you confident he was talking about the author version?
What if we had a setting to hide upvotes/hide reactions/randomize order of comments so they aren’t biased by the desire to conform?
Try greaterwrong.com, turn on anti-kibbitzer, sort comments by New
This is probably possible, but I wouldn’t use it. I WANT comments to conform on many dimensions (clarity of thought, non-attack framing of other users, verbose enough to be clear, not so verbose as to waste time or obscure the point, etc.). I don’t want them to (necessarily) conform on content or ideas, but the first desire outweighs the second by quite a bit, and I think for many voters/reactors, it is used that way.
would argue for this being default as well. +1
You can randomize the default comment ordering in your account settings page.
But you can’t change it for anyone else’s view, which is the important thing.
I don’t know whether metachirality was thinking of a setting for authors or for commenters. What makes you confident he was talking about the author version?
I’m talking for commenters