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Luke_A_Somers 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: DuncanF 04 November 2012 07:44:55AM 0 points [-]

Hmmm. My unease with this idea would be entirely resolved if the upvotes were cached until the user reached 1000 karma rather than merely prohibited/lost.

Consider EYs article on how we fail to co-operate; I'd like to be able to stand-up and say "yes, more of this please". I don't mind at all if the effect of that upvoting is delayed but if I reach 1000 karma I don't expect to find the energy to go back over all the old threads to up vote those I liked in the past - so in that world my expression of support will be forever missing.

That said, something really is necessary - on more recent posts the comments have had such a disheartening effect that I was beginning to decide that I should only read articles.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 November 2012 08:00:05AM 0 points [-]

The thing is your early up votes and down votes are probably different than your later ones.

Comment author: DuncanF 05 November 2012 12:55:02PM 0 points [-]

My expectation is that there would be a significant degree of similarity. This may be a testable hypothesis, but we'd have to be gathering the data.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 November 2012 09:14:50PM 1 point [-]