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TimS comments on Meta: LW Policy: When to prohibit Alice from replying to Bob's arguments? - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: SilasBarta 12 September 2012 03:29AM

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Comment author: TimS 12 September 2012 02:07:04PM 4 points [-]

I tend to downvote people who don't seem to be acting effectively toward their perceived objectives.

Really? Why?

Suppose I have the goal of convincing LW to stop thinking about FAI. So I write a brilliant article on the dangers of uFAI. The utter disconnect between the goal and the article means you downvote?

That's a different position that downvoting because you don't approve the political move.