Comment on Upcoming LW Changes

Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:40:19 GMT

I agree with you that grudge-making should be discouraged by the system.

Another might be, as suggested somewhere else, preventing users from downvoting responses to their own posts/comments

Hmm. I think downvoting a response to one's material is typically a poor idea, but I don't yet think that case is typical enough to prevent it outright.

I am curious now about the interaction between downvoting a comment and replying to it. If Alice posts something and Bob responds to it, a bad situation from the grudge-making point of view is Alice both downvoting Bob's comment and responding to it. If it was bad enough to downvote, the theory goes, that means it is too bad to respond to.

So one could force Alice to choose between downvoting and replying to the children of posts she makes, in the hopes of replacing a chain of -1 snipes with either a single -1 or a chain of discussion at 0.

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