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palladias comments on Dealing with trolling and the signal to noise ratio - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: JoshuaZ 31 August 2012 01:26PM

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Comment author: palladias 31 August 2012 03:20:26PM 13 points [-]

Explaining downvotes threatens to turn threads into metadebates about the validity of that downvote.

Comment author: dbaupp 31 August 2012 03:36:23PM 6 points [-]

And requiring explanations would then mean that a heavily downvoted post gets lots of stupid responses along the lines of "You're a troll" or just a link to another comment.