MBlume comments on Of Gender and Rationality - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 April 2009 12:56AM

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Comment author: MBlume 16 April 2009 09:37:00AM 3 points [-]

hmm, here's a spiel on voting and karma, I'm a little worried that it sounds too forbidding -- what do you think?

You may have noticed that all the posts and all the comments on this site have buttons to vote them up or down, and all the users have "karma" scores which come from the sum of all their comments and posts. Try not to take this too personally. Voting is used mainly to get the most useful comments up to the top of the page where people can see them. It may be difficult to contribute substantially to ongoing conversations when you've just gotten here, and you may even see some of your comments get voted down. Don't be discouraged by this. If you've any questions about karma or voting, please feel free to ask here.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 16 April 2009 08:46:32PM *  2 points [-]

My non-confident impression is that it's good. One slightly friendlier suggestion would be to replace "Don't be discouraged by this." with "Don't be discouraged by this; it happened to many of us."

Thanks for building us the welcome thread.

Comment author: MBlume 16 April 2009 09:11:56PM 0 points [-]

Don't be discouraged by this; it happened to many of us.

I like that

Thanks for building us the welcome thread.

No problem =)