Emile comments on LessWrong Boo Vote (Stochastic Downvoting) - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 22 April 2009 01:18AM

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Comment author: MBlume 22 April 2009 08:26:56AM *  5 points [-]

I would base the division on length -- long comments should be downvoted mercilessly, as they take up more time and more screen real estate -- but this makes sense too.

Comment author: Emile 22 April 2009 09:13:08AM *  1 point [-]

Agreed, I thought about adding that as a second alternative, but skipped it to prevent my comment from getting too long ;-)

Length isn't as much of a problem when the discussion has turned into a back-and forth between two commenters, or in a reply to a question, but still, overall, we should discourage a long, rambling style.