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While I would encourage civility at every turn, I don't think any amount of friendliness will ever completely remove the negative emotional jolt when pointed out you're wrong. Positive punishment* is important, and I'd rather preventively experience it in a safe place such as this (or in a relationship, for that matter), than in the real world.
I don't know of a more civil discussion forum than lesswrong, so from my perspective some people are setting the bar unrealistically high.
For some people the positive punishment seems to be associated with commenting in general instead of just being wrong. I wonder if anything can be done about that...
*I really wish the connotation was something else...
FYI: Negative reinforcement is the wrong term. Negative reinforcement is the taking away of an aversive stimulus to increase certain behavior or response.
A negative emotional jolt when pointed out you're wrong wouldn't be negative reinforcement, it would be positive punishment: the adding of an aversive stimulus to decrease a certain behavior or response.
Thanks, edited.