eirenicon comments on Article upvoting - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 July 2009 05:03PM

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Comment author: eirenicon 19 July 2009 06:29:43PM 2 points [-]

True -- but this is not an instance of no one voting (I assume "Are You Anosognosic?" has received some downvotes as well because it is under 'Controversial'). The purpose of voting is to improve the signal to noise ratio, but there is so little noise on LW that voting is really only distinguishing between good signal and great signal. Nobody is afraid that not voting will diminish the current signal to noise ratio, are they?