Normal_Anomaly comments on Correcting errors and karma - Less Wrong

-5 Post author: rebellionkid 29 April 2012 05:03PM

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 29 April 2012 05:13:11PM 4 points [-]

IME, retracting a mistake gets you less karma than you lost, or possibly a gain of 1. Even in the latter case, I wouldn't make deliberate mistakes to gain karma, because seeing a comment at -1 hurts significantly more than gaining 1 point feels good. (Yes I realize this is loss aversion bias. But since far more upvotes are given than downvotes, a downvote has more information than an upvote.)