Lumifer comments on Could auto-generated troll scores reduce Twitter and Facebook harassments? - Less Wrong

0 Post author: Stefan_Schubert 30 April 2015 02:05PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 02 May 2015 10:44:47PM 1 point [-]

But in my book you don't downvote a comment simply because you don't agree with it.

Does it surprise you that many people here have books that are different from yours?

Comment author: Username 03 May 2015 05:12:50PM 1 point [-]

This seems like a great way to build echo chambers. "Oh, he dares to hold a different view than mine? Downvote!"

Comment author: Lumifer 03 May 2015 05:44:44PM 2 points [-]

Not a great way, but a small step towards, yes :-)

But the LW-in-reality is some distance away from the LW-as-it-should-be. In practice I see downvotes on the basis of disagreement all the time. This is what is (descriptive) regardless of what people would like to be (normative).