Elo 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: Elo 21 July 2015 05:52:58AM 0 points [-]

sure. some people will. and some people will re-think their choices and write with more effort. and some people will accept -1 karma. I don't see these 3 choices as a problem, if we can marginally increase the quality of interactions...

Comment author: Lumifer 21 July 2015 04:22:47PM 4 points [-]

I don't expect that an incentive to add some unnecessary volume will improve the quality of comments.

Recall Blaise Pascal's "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time" :-)

Comment author: Elo 22 July 2015 01:47:03AM 0 points [-]

a lovely quote, I would not say that volume is correlated with quality, but I would say the potential benefits outweigh the disadvantages. Obviously enough people disagree with me.

Comment author: David_Bolin 21 July 2015 07:41:54AM 2 points [-]

I don't think this would be helpful, basically for the reason Lumifer said. In terms of how I vote personally, if I consider a comment unproductive, being longer increases the probability that I will downvote, since it wastes more of my time.