It is often said that one of our core values is being able to change your mind and admit when you are wrong. That process involves questioning. Am I wrong about X? As a community, we should not punish questioning, and yet my own experience suggests we do.
Am I wrong about X? As a community, we should not punish questioning, and yet my own experience suggests we do.
Yup, I personally had a post downvoted to −11 where I honestly asked “the Less Wrong community to help me resolve potential fallacies and biases in my framing of the above ideas.”
It is often said that one of our core values is being able to change your mind and admit when you are wrong. That process involves questioning. Am I wrong about X? As a community, we should not punish questioning, and yet my own experience suggests we do.
Yup, I personally had a post downvoted to −11 where I honestly asked “the Less Wrong community to help me resolve potential fallacies and biases in my framing of the above ideas.”