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JoshuaZ comments on [META] Karma for last 30 days? - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: ArisKatsaris 30 August 2012 10:33AM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 30 August 2012 10:47:35PM 14 points [-]

Biased sample if those who flee the long-replies-to-downvoted-comments threads have already left

Valid point. How can we test this?

At the point where LW starts being unfun for me to read, I panic.

Being concerned about the signal to noise ratio is reasonable, but yes this sounds like panicking. Deciding that there's a problem is not the same thing as deciding that a specific course of action is a good solution to the problem. (I shouldn't need to tell you that.)

Comment author: David_Gerard 31 August 2012 11:04:15AM 13 points [-]

The mental model being applied appears to be sculpting the community in the manner of sculpting marble with a hammer and chisel. Whereas how it'll work will be rather more like sculpting flesh with a hammer and chisel, giving rather a lot of side effects and not quite achieving the desired aims. Sculpting online communities really doesn't work very well.

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