Stefan_Schubert comments on Guidelines for Upvoting and Downvoting? - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Sable 06 May 2015 11:51AM

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Comment author: Stefan_Schubert 06 May 2015 05:59:08PM 7 points [-]

Lots of people seem to downvote a comment or a post simply because they do not agree with its conclusions, as was discussed here. That's wrong, in my opinion. Instead, you should only downvote in case the reasoning is poor, there are personal attacks, and so forth.