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gwillen comments on Happy Ada Lovelace Day - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: palladias 16 October 2012 09:42PM

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Comment author: gwillen 16 October 2012 10:35:40PM 0 points [-]

I see someone has stated their disagreement with a downvote, but let me state mine with a comment instead: I think this post is too valuable to be hidden in the Open Thread.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 October 2012 04:29:34PM *  5 points [-]

this post is too valuable to be hidden in the Open Thread

Could you make explicit your argument and reasoning for the high value of this post?

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 17 October 2012 06:14:20AM *  2 points [-]

I see someone has stated their disagreement with a downvote, but let me state mine with a comment instead: I think this post is too valuable to be hidden in the Open Thread.

Where do you see that, exactly?

Comment author: gjm 17 October 2012 01:45:41PM 1 point [-]

Presumably Alicorn's comment was at -1 for a bit.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 18 October 2012 09:46:40AM 1 point [-]

Presumably Alicorn's comment was at -1 for a bit.

I realize that. I was voicing my annoyance with the implicit claim that a wild-ass-guess about the motivation of an anonymous downvoter is on par with an actual observation ("see").