SilasBarta comments on Please do not downvote every comment or post someone has ever made as a retaliation tactic. - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Will_Newsome 21 August 2011 12:35PM

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Comment author: SilasBarta 22 August 2011 03:24:25PM 16 points [-]

Asymmetric voting reduces the informativeness of the karma ratings. See also EY's point here: that if views are distributed evenly, but people speak up only when they're on one of the sides, then you get the wrong impression about the consensus.