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I would really like the final result to contain a subreddit for Effective Altruism and a subreddit for Self-Improvement/Instrumental Rationality/Applied Rationality/whatever we're calling it today.
Downvoted as I don't think Effective Altruism is broad enough to justify an entire sub-reddit if we're still sticking to a small overall number.
Is that an appropriate use of downvoting? Ben_'s comment seems to contribute to the discussion.
In general, I don't think that you should downvote for mere disagreement. This thread feels somewhat different, though, since people are making suggestions of what they'd like to see implemented on the site and up/downvoting those suggestions acts as an easy way of estimating the amount of support that a suggestion has.
My impression was similar. I would interpret a downvote of a suggestion here to mean "I don't want this feature implemented on the website" not "You are doing something bad, stop it.".
[Agreement-upvoted]
I think a two-dimensional vote (usefulness, agreement) instead of the current single dimension ('upvote'/'downvote') would be a good thing for LW to consider.
(There is a difference between disagreement and someone being wrong; with disagreement you don't understand very well where your own position comes from.)
It's a narrow subject, but it gets a lot of attention here, especially in recent months: a scan through the recent activity in Main suggests somewhere around a tenth of top-level posts are related. That's a pretty good chunk and it doesn't fit too cleanly into any of the other proposed categories, so giving it its own subreddit might not be a bad idea.