I am currently so biased against anecdotal evidence
You mean, as opposed to personal experience? ISTM that all evidence is either personal experience or anecdotal, i.e., something that someone else told you about.
I read "And I speak from experience" as making this comment less convincing. Surely that's overcorrecting?
I don't know. What's your experience with that? ;-)
More seriously: I wonder, does that mean you now believe that you don't run a risk of false-positives if you don't define your criteria in advance? How does that match your own experience?
That is, does someone else having an experience actually make your own experience less valid? (It wouldn't surprise me, btw, I've believed much weirder things with worse side-effects before.)
You mean, as opposed to personal experience?
No, as opposed to empirical data with some of the usual bias-correction measures like proper sampling.
That is, does someone else having an experience actually make your own experience less valid?
No, just internally flagged the comment as "not worthwhile" because it relied upon anecdotes where clearly data would be more appropriate. But a comment with no such mention should not be more valuable, so this seems to be an overcorrection.
The main danger for LW is that it could become rationalist-porn for daydreamers.
I suggest a pattern of counterattack:
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(This used to be a comment, here.)Find a nonrational aspect of your nature that is hindering you right now.
Determine privately to fix it.
Set a short deadline. Do the necessary work.
Write it up on LW at the deadline. Whether or not it worked.