I agree with your advice, but I suspect that many folks have interesting, relevant, reasonable quality insights that they don’t write posts or comments about because they are worried about downvotes.
If the OP causes some of those posts to be made that wouldn’t have been made, then it probably provides net benefit to LessWrong. That said, I completely endorse your second paragraph. There’s no reason to court downvotes that could have been avoided.
I agree with your advice, but I suspect that many folks have interesting, relevant, reasonable quality insights that they don’t write posts or comments about because they are worried about downvotes.
If the OP causes some of those posts to be made that wouldn’t have been made, then it probably provides net benefit to LessWrong. That said, I completely endorse your second paragraph. There’s no reason to court downvotes that could have been avoided.
Ditto