Technologos comments on Support That Sounds Like Dissent - Less Wrong

65 Post author: jimrandomh 20 March 2009 10:28PM

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Comment author: Technologos 21 March 2009 01:20:11AM 6 points [-]

Voting the topic up can send signals other than agreement--I vote up articles which I find interesting but with which I disagree. Explicit (dis)agreement would reduce the noise in the up/down metric.

Also, stating agreement prior to a negative remark helps with interpretation without nonverbal clues.