palladias comments on Dealing with trolling and the signal to noise ratio - Less Wrong

22 Post author: JoshuaZ 31 August 2012 01:26PM

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Comment author: palladias 31 August 2012 06:26:35PM *  2 points [-]

There seem to be two functions of this discussion:

  • come up with practical solutions
  • diagnose the problem

Terrible to implement comment tweaks can still spur helpful discussion. A poster may have articulated a problem or an incentive in a way most of us haven't considered yet. Not everyone who has an interesting description of the problem may have that much coding-fu. Better to throw up your diagnosis without worrying too much about the cure and let everyone critique, counter-suggest, and fix the implementation.