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wwa comments on [LINK] XKCD Comic #1236, Seashells and Bayes' Theorem - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: wwa 10 July 2013 09:31:09PM 0 points [-]

May I kindly ask for reasons of the two downvotes to my comment? I precommited to explaining why I downvote anything, unless already explained by someone else. What was wrong in this particular instance?

Comment author: tim 10 July 2013 09:40:33PM 5 points [-]

I would imagine its because explaining your downvote (unless there is a particularly good reason) also decreases the signal to noise ratio.

Comment author: wedrifid 11 July 2013 05:36:07AM 1 point [-]

May I kindly ask for reasons of the two downvotes to my comment?

It was mildly annoying and unnecessary.

I precommited to explaining why I downvote anything, unless already explained by someone else.

A precommitment to breaking wind in public whenever the urge arises would be unwise for the same reason.

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