Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Open Thread: March 2009 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: CarlShulman 26 March 2009 04:04AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 March 2009 12:23:16AM 2 points [-]

The slider is an interesting notion. It adds user-interface complexity, and may have incentive problems for users who desire to exert control, but potentially garners a substantially more useful form of information.

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Comment author: anonym 30 March 2009 05:03:55PM *  0 points [-]

That's a good idea. Though I didn't say it originally, when I mentioned normalization of a vote with respect to the user that cast it, I meant not only that it should be normalized against the average rating of a vote for that user but also against how much the user votes in general -- users who rate everything would then have less influence per vote than users who vote less frequently. If that were the case, then people who prefer to ration their votes and use them only for things they feel very strongly about (or have thought carefully about) would not have much less influence on what is popular and the direction of the site, as they currently do.

Comment author: ciphergoth 27 March 2009 08:30:22AM 2 points [-]

At the moment the current score is a strong influence on how I vote on comments: I vote to move the score to the value I'd like it to have. This is somewhat unstable; directly specifying a personal score and taking a median would be less problematic.