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Comment author: MichaelVassar 17 April 2012 05:03:20AM 2 points [-]

Why is a request to upvote being upvoted?

Comment author: drethelin 17 April 2012 05:07:26AM 2 points [-]

If you think this is bad you should see my comment on the hpmor thread that got upvoted 12 points for just agreeing with the parent

Comment author: [deleted] 17 April 2012 10:55:02AM *  2 points [-]

Yeah, http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/topcomments/ is always full of comments in HPMOR discussions. (As of now, only one of this week's top ten comments is not in a HPMOR thread.) It bothers the hell out of me.

Comment author: DanPeverley 17 April 2012 09:42:13PM 4 points [-]

Everyone goes into those threads primed to be friendly to the other people, because they are all members of the same fan-fiction reading in-group. There is also a shift from "on a rationality site" mode to "talking about media" mode, where rigor in voting rationale tends to become somewhat more lax. I don't mind, but I'm part of the in-group so that's to be expected.

Comment author: Dias 19 April 2012 08:02:05AM 2 points [-]

On the plus side, if that thread has a lot of new people drawn by HPMOR, so we may not want to subject them to such stringent standards.

On the other hand, I think we upvote (orrather, don't downvote enough) in the rest of LW too much anyway.