The recent implementation of a −5 karma penalty for replying to comments that are at −3 or below has clearly met with some disagreement and controversy.
How about we wait a couple weeks to try the new feature; instead of jumping up in outrage and proposing even more complicated schemes?
I’d be in favor of an official “no complaining about feature X for the first two weeks” rule, after which a post could be created for discussion. Like that the discussion could be about what actually happened, and not about what people imagine might happen.
It’s not as if two weeks of using an experimental feature was some unbearable burden.
I’m much more comfortable with this sort of intervention as a “We think this will improve the forums, let’s test this for a month or two” rather than “Lesswrong sucks but this will fix it guys, trust us”
It’s not a huge burden, but we’re already seeing some negative effects worth discussing. For example I have now twice paid the 5 karma penalty replying to downvoted comments which were not trolling at all; they were downvoted because people disagreed with what they were proposing.
If we decide to wait two weeks, we need to decide on specific criteria that we will judge in two weeks’ time to decide whether to modify or remove the new feature. If the new feature stays anyway because a few people decide unilaterally, then we might as well discuss it now.
How about we wait a couple weeks to try the new feature; instead of jumping up in outrage and proposing even more complicated schemes?
I’d be in favor of an official “no complaining about feature X for the first two weeks” rule, after which a post could be created for discussion. Like that the discussion could be about what actually happened, and not about what people imagine might happen.
It’s not as if two weeks of using an experimental feature was some unbearable burden.
I’m much more comfortable with this sort of intervention as a “We think this will improve the forums, let’s test this for a month or two” rather than “Lesswrong sucks but this will fix it guys, trust us”
It’s not a huge burden, but we’re already seeing some negative effects worth discussing. For example I have now twice paid the 5 karma penalty replying to downvoted comments which were not trolling at all; they were downvoted because people disagreed with what they were proposing.
If we decide to wait two weeks, we need to decide on specific criteria that we will judge in two weeks’ time to decide whether to modify or remove the new feature. If the new feature stays anyway because a few people decide unilaterally, then we might as well discuss it now.