wedrifid comments on High Status and Stupidity: Why? - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 January 2010 04:36PM

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 13 January 2010 11:03:03PM 2 points [-]

Data point, praising the group gets the group to praise or up-vote you and is a good way to gain status, contra http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/01/status-audit.html#more-21415 Important for people to remember this for future use.

Comment author: wedrifid 14 January 2010 09:12:56AM 3 points [-]

Data point: Insulting the group gets the group to praise or up-vote you approximately 25 times as many karma points.

Data point framed differently: It is possible to get the group to up-vote you despite praising the group but it still isn't a good way to gain status, you are still better off copy and pasting quotes into the quote thread.