wedrifid comments on Open Thread: February 2010 - Less Wrong

1 Post author: wedrifid 01 February 2010 06:09AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 02 February 2010 09:44:15AM 6 points [-]

Is this a behavior we want?

No. It is not difficult to create a top level post that is approved of or at least kept at '0'. I want undesirable top level posts to hurt.

If not, what can we do about it?

Replace all '-ve' karma value displays of top level posts with '- points' or '<0 points'. We don't necessarily need to know just how disapproved of a particular post is.

Comment author: MrHen 08 February 2010 10:12:17PM 0 points [-]

It helps me as an author. -1 is a significant difference from -5.

Comment author: wedrifid 09 February 2010 02:54:11AM 3 points [-]

Easily solved technically. Show actual figures to the author.

Comment author: MrHen 09 February 2010 05:15:35AM 0 points [-]

Agreed.