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18 Post author: Wei_Dai 05 October 2012 07:23AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 05 October 2012 11:57:06AM 7 points [-]

There might be discussions that transition between censored and uncensored.

This could be annoying, if we have to check all the comments upstream from the one we're responding to, to make sure there isn't a comment that might be downvoted to -4 in the future and make the effort a waste. I pointed out a bunch of potential downsides of this proposal to Eliezer but even I didn't think of this one.

Comment author: thomblake 08 October 2012 08:05:43PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, most of the systems that do this sort of thing seem to hide the low-scoring comments but show high-voted children, avoiding that sort of problem.