steven0461 comments on Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 18 February 2011 09:15:32PM *  2 points [-]

In innocent technical discussions, users will generally base their votes only on the merits of the comments they're voting on. In sensitive political discussions, some will vote based on ideological agreement.

A problem common to both cases is that LessWrong is hesitant to vote anything down below zero, possibly for good morale-related reasons.