John_Maxwell_IV comments on 6 Tips for Productive Arguments - Less Wrong

30 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 18 March 2012 09:02PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 19 March 2012 03:08:53AM *  0 points [-]

Larks strikes again.

(Comment was at -1 when I found it.)

It definitely changes my feeling about getting voted down to know there are people like Larks. I guess I just assumed that everyone was like me in reserving downvotes for the absolute worst stuff. Maybe there's some way of getting new users to expect that their first few comments will be voted down and not to worry about it?

Comment author: handoflixue 23 March 2012 07:01:44PM 0 points [-]

It would be interesting to see statistics on up vs down vote frequency per user. Even just a graph of how many users are in the 0-10% down vote bracket, 10-20%, etc. would be neat. I doubt the data is currently available, otherwise it would be trivial to put together a simple graph and a quick post detailing trends in that data.

Comment author: Larks 19 March 2012 03:00:43PM 0 points [-]

Larks strikes again.

I guess that was a joke, but the downvote wasn't me ;)

If nothing else downvoting replies to your own comments seems a bit dubeous