Morendil comments on The Fundamental Question - Less Wrong

43 Post author: MBlume 19 April 2010 04:09PM

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Comment author: SilasBarta 19 April 2010 05:41:49PM *  0 points [-]

What are you doing?

Voting this post down.

And why are you doing it?

Because it contributes nothing substantive to the site; we're aware of the problem of grounding actions, and this doesn't help solve it.

ETA: On reflection, I made this point way too harshly, in an attempt to be cute. Sorry about that.

ETA2: Someone seems to be modding down everyone who's replied to this. Just so you know, it's not me. I don't vote on comments in arguments I'm directly involved in, and I've made a big deal about adhering to this in the past.

Comment author: Morendil 19 April 2010 05:50:36PM 0 points [-]

I agree that the post has little substantive content, but it may generate some interesting discussion even while sitting at 0.

You could fault it for timing - the flood of former lurkers who saying Hi, sometimes with interesting commentary, is already too much to keep up with - but I'd rather downvote an overly long post than a short one. Less of a strain on my attention economy.

Comment author: SilasBarta 19 April 2010 05:52:09PM 1 point [-]

I agree that the post has little substantive content, but it may generate some interesting discussion even while sitting at 0.

Perhaps, but that would better justify making it an open thread comment.