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

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Comment author: Stefan_Schubert 07 May 2015 11:00:04AM *  5 points [-]

Thanks. The instructions are quite vague, though. On the one hand, it says:

Please do not vote solely based on how much you agree or disagree with someone's conclusions.

On the other:

In some cases it's probably acceptable to vote in order to register agreement or disagreement. For example, you can vote someone's proposal up or down based on whether you think it should be implemented.

In my view, this gives too much leeway to people to vote purely on the basis on disagreement with the conclusions.

Comment author: Lumifer 07 May 2015 02:47:49PM 3 points [-]

this gives too much leeway to people

There is no enforcement mechanism, so people have all the leeway the want regardless of what the instructions say.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 07 May 2015 11:46:24AM 1 point [-]

Should we delete the "In some cases..." clause?

Submitting...

Comment author: Elo 07 May 2015 06:48:02PM 0 points [-]

repeat poll in a more public location?