Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Quantifying ethicality of human actions - Less Wrong

-14 Post author: bogus 13 October 2009 04:10PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 October 2009 05:49:21PM 1 point [-]

Well, this post has now been voted down to -5, but it's still showing as "0" and it hasn't disappeared off the "Recent Posts" header. This is probably not the behavior we want, I think?

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 13 October 2009 07:46:42PM 6 points [-]

Mmm... I'd probably want stuff to not disappear from new/recent posts, even if voted down. Instead, let them fall out of the popular (and fall lower in the promoted list, if a promoted one ended up being voted down that much)

ie, to me, new/recently posted means just that, a non filtering list of simply "what was posted recently", while things like "popular" and so on are more appropriate places for such filtering to occur.

Comment author: thomblake 14 October 2009 12:01:52AM 3 points [-]

I'm not sure. Surely posts that have been voted down should still be visible to those of us who'd like to read even unpopular posts. Perhaps deletion is the right answer if it really is junk, as RichardKennaway suggests. However, bogus seems to be an actual user who makes reasoned contributions, so I'd hesitate to call it 'spam' or something.

Comment author: CannibalSmith 13 October 2009 11:36:26PM 0 points [-]

Yes.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 13 October 2009 08:53:53PM *  0 points [-]

I suggest the post be considered for deletion by the admins. It's junk.

But perhaps bogus (ha!) has something to say. bogus, what is the provenance of that text, and why did you post it? According to Wikipedia, user "24" was banned for gross abuse, and "124" is also under suspicion.