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mwengler comments on [META] Retributive downvoting: Why? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: mwengler 28 November 2012 05:56:15PM 9 points [-]

It seems to me that the argument "the design is fine because you shouldn't even care about this feature" is wrong.

That a significant number of people seem to think comments like this have some value seems to me to be a bug in typical human reasoning, not a feature.

If the feature exists, it is hard for me to guess how one would not get value from paying attention to the users of the feature in optimizing its design.