army1987 comments on Open Thread: March 4 - 10 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dagon 05 March 2014 12:57:18PM 8 points [-]

It always amazes me how much weight people give to the very lossy signal that is karma. Please do report (on Sundays) whether you think this is helping, and with which goals.

Honestly, 75% positive seems pretty good to me. In fact, it seems better than my (current) 96%. If I'm not posting at least some things that people don't like, I'm probably posting too little generally, and not taking enough risks.

In an attempt to remedy this, I will reduce my threshold for commenting or posting each week until I'm at 75% positive karma, and then re-evaluate whether I like that level.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 March 2014 05:31:58PM 0 points [-]

Please do report (on Sundays) whether you think this is helping, and with which goals.

It sure is helping with not spending inordinate amounts of time on Less Wrong, given the way I implemented it. (I LeechBlock'd LW on non-Sundays on my netbook and logged out of it on my phone.)