Academian comments on Reasoning isn't about logic (it's about arguing) - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Morendil 14 March 2010 04:42AM

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Comment author: Academian 14 March 2010 05:51:58AM *  0 points [-]

If people started taking your first advice, comment quality would go up, and downvoting might be a little more prevalent, discouraging at least "pointless" posts. Also, posts in clear violation of guidelines would not happen much, unless there was visibly an exceptional benefit, lest they draw downvotes. Judging from MathOverflow (see my other comment), the downvoting doesn't devolve into fearmongering, either, just a healthy immunity to trolling and time-wasting.

This is great Meta material ;)