I feel like there’s a minority of the LessWrong community that enjoys giving snarky and fairly mean comments, often to rather small and minor points. These comments have definitely made me feel less welcome here when posting; I would hope they could somehow be downvoted more.
Motivation: I rarely see a comment that i wish wasn’t visible. But i sometimes see a post that i wish would be downvote-hidden (eg spam, insubstantial drama, etc).
This is not a serious problem right now, however, so handling this via mods is also an option. Downvoting is theoretically similar to moderation after all.
In the short term, i’m open to the idea of allowing only upvotes on comments, but allowing both up and downvotes on posts.
I feel like there’s a minority of the LessWrong community that enjoys giving snarky and fairly mean comments, often to rather small and minor points. These comments have definitely made me feel less welcome here when posting; I would hope they could somehow be downvoted more.
Motivation: I rarely see a comment that i wish wasn’t visible. But i sometimes see a post that i wish would be downvote-hidden (eg spam, insubstantial drama, etc).
This is not a serious problem right now, however, so handling this via mods is also an option. Downvoting is theoretically similar to moderation after all.