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Wei_Dai comments on How can we get more and better LW contrarians? - Less Wrong Discussion

58 Post author: Wei_Dai 18 April 2012 10:01PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 20 April 2012 12:11:55AM *  1 point [-]

Both you and David_Gerard seem to have taken my question as asking about the general benefits of "ignoring tone", when I was trying to figure out what cousin_it meant by "worked well", specifically whether he had succeeded in making a rude commenter less belligerent and a better contributor to the community, and also explaining why I wasn't sure what he meant.

Did you really misinterpret my question, or did you just use it as an opportunity to go off on a tangent and write something of general interest? (I'm trying to figure out if I need to be more careful about how to express myself.)

Comment author: David_Gerard 22 April 2012 02:15:04PM *  -1 points [-]

I would be interested to know what "worked well" meant more specifically as well (more specifically than "I felt personally satisfied with the conversation").

Comment author: wedrifid 20 April 2012 02:24:53PM *  -2 points [-]

Both you and David_Gerard seem to have taken my question as asking about the general benefits of "ignoring tone

I don't seem to have done that at all.

Not only was I repling to what 'worked well' meant - in general and from what I have observed of specific recent applications here - I was discussing the use of fogging, not merely tone-ignorance.