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Comment author: linkhyrule5 23 August 2013 06:15:24AM 0 points [-]

I downvoted your post because I wasn't sure which answer went to which question, and didn't think it worth the time to try and figure out which was which.

Comment author: Bayeslisk 24 August 2013 10:51:01PM 1 point [-]

The answers went to the questions in order.

Comment author: linkhyrule5 25 August 2013 12:58:42AM 2 points [-]

... yes. The questions which are buried in the original post, stated as they were useful for the flow of the argument.

Basically: your post is probably less useful than the effort required to figure out what it means. Since I would like to discourage this lack of clarity, I downvoted your post.

Comment author: Bayeslisk 26 August 2013 06:08:27AM 0 points [-]

I'd hope that anyone reading a top-level comment on the post would also have read the post itself. I don't think that this is very unclear, but I understand that your reasoning based on the idea that it isn't clear is otherwise sound. I am however disappointed that without even attempting to disentangle what I mean to say, you reject it as probably useless.

Comment author: linkhyrule5 26 August 2013 07:24:59AM 1 point [-]

I did read the post itself, and however note that correlating your answers with questions would require me to search posts for question marks, as well as hoping that you didn't miss one.

Even on LessWrong, the average comment quality is just not worth a minute of my time, especially when it'd be fairly trivial to cut the cost to a few seconds worth.

Comment author: Bayeslisk 26 August 2013 02:15:30PM 0 points [-]

First: there was only one large series of questions. Second: if the comment quality here is so low, then why do you bother reading them in the first place, or even taking time to downvote? I'd opine that it isn't, but then again most of my time reading comments is spend on reddit, and lesswrong resembles a not-shit reddit in some ways.

Comment author: linkhyrule5 26 August 2013 03:09:01PM 3 points [-]

And statements mixed in with them.

And comment quality here isn't low; it's just not worth a minute of my time. A minute - as in, a literal minute is an awful lot for a one-line comment; even written out that would've taken me about thirty seconds to read and comprehend.

My point is, fundamentally, that it could have been easily been clearer, wasn't, and therefore I disapprove.

Ironically, I've spent a lot more than a minute typing all these posts...

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