Well, some threads simply get more traffic than others; any post that generates abundant discussion is more likely to generate highly upvoted discussion, which means threads like Curi’s Critical Rationalism threads would appear as having “high quality” discussion when in fact they contained very little worth reading, and may even have been a response to a deliberate trolling.
And of course, it’s well known that Eliezer has a karma wake, since any comment that his own comments call attention to will get a large influx of readers. Recently, one of my own comments which had been stable at +2 till a few hours after I posted it shot up to +7 when Eliezer replied to the parent. Other posters like Yvain may generate similar effects.
Well, some threads simply get more traffic than others; any post that generates abundant discussion is more likely to generate highly upvoted discussion, which means threads like Curi’s Critical Rationalism threads would appear as having “high quality” discussion when in fact they contained very little worth reading, and may even have been a response to a deliberate trolling.
And of course, it’s well known that Eliezer has a karma wake, since any comment that his own comments call attention to will get a large influx of readers. Recently, one of my own comments which had been stable at +2 till a few hours after I posted it shot up to +7 when Eliezer replied to the parent. Other posters like Yvain may generate similar effects.