Gurkenglas comments on Should you write longer comments? (Statistical analysis of the relationship between comment length and ratings) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gurkenglas 20 July 2015 02:42:36PM 3 points [-]

Naturally, even if your longer comments are rated higher than the short ones, this does not mean that inflating comments would always produce positive results.

Here's where I got really hopeful that you would address the part about correlation and causation, Goodhart's law, etc.