Vaniver comments on Rational Romantic Relationships, Part 1: Relationship Styles and Attraction Basics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 07 November 2011 03:26:20PM 4 points [-]

The most recent example would be my comment that everyone becoming bisexual might lead to a net social loss, although the karma scores have gone up since that discussion happened (and so maybe I just need to wait before updating on the karma of contrarian comments).

I spent way too long looking through other comments I've made, and only really came across this example. I suspect this was misapplying discontent caused by other arguments. I had already noticed a while back that when I made a sloppy comment it would often get downvoted, although I would be able to make up the karma by explaining myself downthread. The only other significant example I can think of was in a thread about infanticide where I accidentally implied that I could be for the criminalization of abortion, and that comment got kicked down to -3 karma, with +1 karma from my following comments. (It's hard to decide how that whole thread contributes to this question, because the person who said "well, I can't say this many places, but I'm in favor of infanticide" got upvoted to 41 karma. That suggests to me their position isn't contrarian locally, but I suspect it is contrarian globally.)

Comment author: thomblake 07 November 2011 11:04:26PM 4 points [-]

and so maybe I just need to wait before updating on the karma of contrarian comments

In general, it's been observed that a comment on a controversial topic will be downvoted heavily in a quick flurry but then usually recovers; high-quality such comments tend to end up significantly positive.

Comment author: wedrifid 08 November 2011 02:26:21AM 2 points [-]

In general, it's been observed that a comment on a controversial topic will be downvoted heavily in a quick flurry but then usually recovers; high-quality such comments tend to end up significantly positive.

And now I have seen it observed by someone who isn't me. Good to hear external confirmation! :)

Comment author: thomblake 08 November 2011 02:33:35AM 3 points [-]

Careful - if you've stated it out loud, the observation noted above might be your own.

Comment author: thomblake 07 November 2011 11:11:14PM 3 points [-]

By the way, +1 for noting the tension between "Is that your true rejection" and "Policy debates should not appear one-sided".