Armok_GoB comments on Less Wrong Should Confront Wrongness Wherever it Appears - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 23 September 2010 11:13:29AM 4 points [-]

Proposal: Have this be another site that everyone can read, with hidden user names and no effect on karma, but that only people with a certain amount of karma on LW can post on.

This way we'd get the filtering process of good LW users, while it being unable to affect LW back any way I can see. And my intuition say it had a few more advantages as well but forgot what those were.

Please expand and improve this proposal with more suggestion, subsuggestions and metasuggestions!

Comment that helped inspire this idea: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2qi/less_wrong_should_confront_wrongness_wherever_it/2nmw?c=1

Comment author: [deleted] 25 September 2010 04:27:04PM *  1 point [-]

You however loose a big part of the feedback on individual posts When I get down voted I mostly think hard about why I was downvoted and make a effort to improve and perhaps even correct.

Upvotes seem less informative, they can mean "good argument","right argument" or even just "I loled at that".

This is a bit odd. The possibility of me improving seems to be higher when someone who knows what they are talking about says "do it like this" rather than "don't do it like that" (without following it up with a "do it like this").

This must be because posters infrequently down vote posts into the negative. They are far more liberal at up voting a post to 1, 2 or perhaps even 3 points (depends on how many eyes skim it).

Comment author: Armok_GoB 25 September 2010 09:24:43PM 0 points [-]

Well this would already have only posters that have been on LW long enough to know these things already, and they'd still be on normal LW and keep getting feedback on things.