John_Maxwell_IV comments on No One Knows Stuff - Less Wrong

7 Post author: talisman 12 May 2009 05:11AM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 13 May 2009 04:48:22AM 1 point [-]

It's interesting that this correction has a higher score than the post itself.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 May 2009 08:22:05PM 0 points [-]

People don't seem to vote posts up or down with the same enthusiasm as they vote on comments. Why? I do not know.

Comment author: jscn 13 May 2009 10:10:14PM 2 points [-]

I would guess that it's because comments are shorter and tend to express a single idea. Posts tend to have a series of ideas, which means a voter is less likely to think all of them are good/worthy of an upvote.