John_Maxwell_IV comments on Earning to Give vs. Altruistic Career Choice Revisited - Less Wrong

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 30 May 2013 08:33:25AM *  1 point [-]

Thanks, fixed. I appreciate the correction... no need to retract your comment! :)

Comment author: katydee 30 May 2013 09:22:56AM *  3 points [-]

I know the comment was probably fine, but overall it seemed like it could be read as unnecessarily snarky and hence lower the tone-- PMing you the correction would have been a better move.

All in all I think that the standard for discussion here on LessWrong could be increased a lot if people stopped giving "wiseass" replies to things, were more forgiving of minor errors (while still pointing them out), and so on.

Be the change you want to see on LessWrong!

Comment author: somervta 28 August 2013 05:10:34AM 2 points [-]

FWIW, it didn't come off as snarky at all to me - I read it as exactly the sort of polite correction that I like on LW.