This seems like a great use case for the two-axis voting system that’s being experimented with right now. I think Aella’s response (to what is an anonymous accusation with no hard evidence) is perfectly satisfactory, and presumably others thought so too and downvoted this or removed their upvotes to signal that. But I agree that sharing the post was good (having Aella respond is valuable), so a better outcome would have been if the post had kept moderate karma and received strong downvotes on the second axis. As-is, there’s a genuine dilemma because we don’t want to promote something that unfairly reflects poorly on someone.
I don’t think the +2 karma (one-digit positive karma) is an issue.
While it’s valuable that the discussion itself happened, it’s not valuable for anyone who browsers through LessWrong without prior interest to click through into the thread to follow it.
It’s likely good that it’s there to be linked to, but that value is different than the value a reader who hasn’t seen anything related gets.
This seems like a great use case for the two-axis voting system that’s being experimented with right now. I think Aella’s response (to what is an anonymous accusation with no hard evidence) is perfectly satisfactory, and presumably others thought so too and downvoted this or removed their upvotes to signal that. But I agree that sharing the post was good (having Aella respond is valuable), so a better outcome would have been if the post had kept moderate karma and received strong downvotes on the second axis. As-is, there’s a genuine dilemma because we don’t want to promote something that unfairly reflects poorly on someone.
I don’t think the +2 karma (one-digit positive karma) is an issue.
While it’s valuable that the discussion itself happened, it’s not valuable for anyone who browsers through LessWrong without prior interest to click through into the thread to follow it.
It’s likely good that it’s there to be linked to, but that value is different than the value a reader who hasn’t seen anything related gets.