Comment on Voting etiquette

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:35:08 GMT

Some consequencse of CannibalSmith's sensible rules, together with Eliezer's sensible rule (and a converse: "What should I vote up past -4? What you think doesn't merit hiding from others."):

Every comment gets voted up or down by every voter. In particular ...

Every comment that, on balance, people don't want to see at the top of the page (even if they don't otherwise mind it) gets voted down to minus infinity. Then ...

Everyone follows Eliezer's advice and votes it up again to get it past -4.

This all seems rather suboptimal.

(Yeah, I know, tongue in cheek and all that.)

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