kpreid comments on Open Thread: July 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kpreid 26 July 2009 11:58:35AM 2 points [-]

In my opinion, too many comments lately have explicitly incidentally discussed their authors' votes; I think it distracts from the actual topic and metadiscussions ought to be separate comments.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 26 July 2009 12:39:39PM 1 point [-]

Counterpoint: knowing why other people vote or don't vote is helpful. Voting alone provides little information about what people did or did not like about a comment.

However, it does distract from the primary topic and some sort of side channel for such discussions would be nice.