CuSithBell comments on How many people here agree with Holden? [Actually, who agrees with Holden?] - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CuSithBell 15 May 2012 06:30:23PM 3 points [-]

Possibly it's upvoted to encourage responses to the post - that is, it's high-content relative to not posting?

Comment author: thomblake 15 May 2012 07:26:23PM 4 points [-]

There's been a feature request around for a while, to allow voting on non-existent comments, which if implemented could balance that out.

Comment author: CuSithBell 15 May 2012 07:47:28PM *  4 points [-]

Before you posted this, I precommitted to upvote it if you didn't post it, if I predicted you'd upvote this post if you did post. I think?

I guess I'm not very good at acausal/counterfactual blackmail.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 15 May 2012 07:50:23PM 1 point [-]

The problem may be more connected to limited stack size than anything else.

Comment author: CuSithBell 15 May 2012 07:56:46PM 1 point [-]

Hey!

Comment author: TheOtherDave 15 May 2012 07:36:02PM 2 points [-]

Yeah, for some reason those never show up on my browser.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 15 May 2012 07:41:34PM 0 points [-]

Is this meant as a joke? My first thought was that this was a joke, but it then occurred to me that having an efficient way of precommitting to upvoting certain types of comment when they appear wouldn't be so bad.

Comment author: thomblake 15 May 2012 09:00:07PM 2 points [-]

Actually, it was marked as Wontfix.

Comment author: thomblake 15 May 2012 08:51:49PM 1 point [-]

It's sort of a joke. I don't see any way of implementing the feature, but the rationale is sound.