wedrifid comments on An account of what I believe to be inconsistent behavior on the part of our editor - Less Wrong

2 Post author: PeterS 17 December 2009 01:33AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 December 2009 02:23:08AM 29 points [-]

I don't think this should have been a top-level post either. It clutters up the newsreader and has an extremely wrong tone relative to what I think should be a usual post on this blog.

Suggested future policy: Anyone who wants to start this sort of meta discussion, create a new post "December 2009 Meta Thread" and post your remarks as a comment.

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Comment author: wedrifid 17 December 2009 02:43:35AM *  4 points [-]

I know that when you have 8000 of it karma is utterly irrelevant. But in the interests of consistency it would be worth following the practice of having another comment which can be voted down for balance. People don't always actually downvote the karma sink but they like having the option to. Without a mechanism to distinguish approval for the principle of having a survey from the supplying of survey data itself the information provided will not even have a chance to approximate being accurate. The people here are the kind who frequent the spin off site of "OvercomingBias".