TheOtherDave comments on Meta: Karma and lesswrong mainstream positions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 April 2011 02:07:08PM 5 points [-]

You say:

I frequently see contra-mainstream comments get 6 or 7 karma;

The OP says:

arguments for contrary positions are received well and achieve high karma scores when they are of very high quality

...and yet you frame this as not sharing the OP's impression, which confuses me, because it sure does sound like your impressions are compatible.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 07 April 2011 10:10:47PM 2 points [-]

I think I misread this:

moderately high quality mainstream comments achieve good positive karma while similar quality contra-mainstream comments stay at 0 to 2.

as

high quality mainstream comments achieve good positive karma while similar quality contra-mainstream comments stay at 0 to 2.

And, of course, the borderline between high quality and moderately high quality is very subjective. So, our impressions are mostly compatible but they differ enough that I don't see a problem.

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