Yo, people who categorically or near-categorically downvote my contributions: assuming you at least have good intentions, could you please exercise more context-sensitivity? I understand this would impose additional costs on your screening processes but I think the result would be fewer negative externalities in the form of subtly misinformed Less Wrong readers, e.g. especially in this case Anna Salamon, who is designing rationality practices and would benefit from relatively unbiased information to a greater extent than might be naively expected. Thanks for your consideration.
I don't normally downvote your contributions (and indeed had just upvoted one), but I downvoted this one for whining about downvotes. (Especially as its parent is actually at +13 right now -- maybe it was at -3 or something when you originally wrote the above, though.)
Anyone who categorically or near-categorically downvotes your contributions is unlikely to be swayed by a polite request for them not to do so.
How do you notice when you're rationalizing? Like, what *actually* tips you off, in real life?
I've listed my cues below; please add your own (one idea per comment), and upvote the comments that you either: (a) use; or (b) will now try using.
I'll be using this list in a trial rationality seminar on Wednesday; it also sounds useful in general.