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HughRistik comments on What bothers you about Less Wrong? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: HughRistik 22 May 2011 09:48:20AM 2 points [-]

Also, there is a disincentive to downvote bad comments that you want everyone to still see.

Comment author: TimFreeman 23 May 2011 03:19:37AM 0 points [-]

Somebody voted the parent comment down without replying. Given the context, that may have been a strange joke. I voted it up.

In the present system, downvoting a comment causes fewer people to see it, since the system by default doesn't show you comments scoring below a user-settable threshhold. I like that feature.

I can't presently imagine a plausible interpretation for downvoting that yields things I'd want to downvote but still would want my peers to look at. Can you give an example?

Comment author: syllogism 26 May 2011 02:02:49PM 1 point [-]

I can't presently imagine a plausible interpretation for downvoting that yields things I'd want to downvote but still would want my peers to look at. Can you give an example?

You post a detailed reply to a low-value comment, and want your reply seen even though you don't like the parent.