And the question of whether we should not do so many upvotes doesn't impact whether we should do more downvotes on already neutral posts, which is what I'm concerned with.
Those were separate points. Jeff was talking about SO's moderation system, I'm talking about ours. I pointed to Jeff's post to help you understand why curation is important; it is separate information that up and down votes are our method of curation.
You also aren't addressing the fact that in practice people are more likely to (down)(up)vote things which have already been (down)(up)voted, which leads to karma sinks.
I did not see anything about that in your comment. What is a 'karma sink' and why is it bad? I agree that if people have this tendency, that's bad, though I do not know how I would even observe this putative tendency in the wild.
The Reddit thing is reasoning by anology at best because the argument is that curation is key to stop useless things from becoming popular. You're also completely shifting the Reddit thing from what you initially said it was supposed to show, from "curation key to stop LessWrong to becoming Reddit" to "it shows why curation is important", where the reason it was important was "because it stops Reddit" but yet you conceded that the reason it's important is not "because it stops Reddit", there's an implicit contradicti...
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