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cousin_it 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: cousin_it 31 August 2012 04:19:52PM *  4 points [-]

I downvoted your comment because you seem to be trying to solve the problem that your first post got downvoted, not the problem posed by the OP. Do you have an argument why requiring explanations for downvoting will reduce trolling and increase the signal to noise ratio on LW? Note that the founder of LW has argued for being more downvote-happy.