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Will_Sawin comments on Conceptual Analysis and Moral Theory - Less Wrong
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Most of the time when I vote something down, I would not try calling the person out if the same comment were made in an ordinary conversation. Explaining a downvote feels like calling someone out, and if I explained my downvotes a lot, I'd feel like I was being aggressive. Now, it's possible that unexplained downvotes feel equally aggressive. But really, all a downvote should mean is that someone did the site a disservice equal in size to the positive contribution represented by a mere one upvote.
I mostly find unexplained downvotes aggressive because I find it frustrating in that I made some kind of mistake but no one wants to explain it to me so that I can do better next time.
It's not that often that mistakes are unambiguous and uncontroversial once pointed out. A lot of the time, the question isn't "do I want to point out his mistake so he can do better next time", but "do I want to commit to having a probably fruitless debate about this".
Do you think that every time a mistake would, in fact, be unambiguous and uncontroversial, it should be pointed out?
If so, do you think more downvotes should be explained?
From my experience it seems like the first quote implies the second.
I think this site is already extremely good at calling out unambiguous and uncontroversial mistakes.