CharlesR comments on What bothers you about Less Wrong? - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Will_Newsome 19 May 2011 10:23AM

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Comment author: CharlesR 19 May 2011 03:48:03PM *  15 points [-]

It is often said that one of our core values is being able to change your mind and admit when you are wrong. That process involves questioning. Am I wrong about X? As a community, we should not punish questioning, and yet my own experience suggests we do.

Comment author: XiXiDu 22 May 2011 09:14:58AM 3 points [-]

Am I wrong about X? As a community, we should not punish questioning, and yet my own experience suggests we do.

Yup, I personally had a post downvoted to -11 where I honestly asked "the Less Wrong community to help me resolve potential fallacies and biases in my framing of the above ideas."