ArisKatsaris comments on What's going on here? - Less Wrong

15 Post author: RobertLumley 27 January 2012 01:38AM

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 27 January 2012 05:20:54PM 2 points [-]

"but I am considering leaving LW over this"

Is the utility of LW to you so small that a mere change in your karma number makes the consideration of departure reasonable?

Comment author: Prismattic 28 January 2012 12:01:03AM 10 points [-]

I don't care much about my overall karma score, but I'd be pretty irritated if all of my comments immediately got voted below the visibility threshhold.

Comment author: RobertLumley 27 January 2012 05:28:27PM 2 points [-]

No. I didn't really care that much about the karma. It was more about being presented with a set of evidence that LW would actually downvote me to that extent, largely without explanation. That's not really the type of community I wanted to be a part of. But fortunately, it's not the type of community that LW is, apparently. My calibration over this entire thing has been really, really confusing. I initially thought it was karmassassination, but after no one really said anything in support of me, and I got downvoted to like -10 for that comment, I figured it was legitimate voting and people were trying to tell me to stop complaining. After this thread, I've again updated.

And regardless, I would have probably still tried to finish reading the sequences. Which I'm really doing a horrible job of...