Rationality Quotes May 2012

OpenThreadGuy

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Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

I'd appreciate an explanation of why criticism of unwarranted negative feedback justifies more negative feedback.

Anyone up for it?

I currently feel that people just irrationally lash out at criticisms or statements which come close to suggesting criticism of the people controlling the karma. I currently think the commenters identify with each other to the extent that criticizing one of their actions draws them all in to attack, and I also don't think that's a healthy thing for a website to do.

criticism of unwarranted negative feedback

Some may consider this an inaccurate or incomplete description of your downvoted posts.

You may want to give a good-faith consideration as to why that is if you want to keep pursuing this.

Additionally, complaints about downvotes are usually not well received - not least because if someone downvoted you, they will probably disagree with a post claiming that they were incorrect to do so.

I would like to see less of a focus on karma - and, for that matter, "status" - on this website.

For what it's worth, I downvoted the grandparent, and upvoted the great-grandparent.

5ArisKatsaris14y

There's probably some law of diminishing returns, where commenting on something = (A1) utility, and commenting on how people comment on something = (A2) utility, and commenting on how people vote = (A3) utility, and you commenting on how people vote on you commenting on how people vote = (Z) utility, where it tends to go A1>A2>A3>...>Z, and probably Z is deep in the negatives. You should also distinguish between types of feedback: receiving downvotes for an unknown reason may be frustrating to you, but it doesn't clutter up the threads. You complaining about every time you get downvoted does clutter up the threads. It's not the same type of "negative feedback". In short: obsess less about karma.

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