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NancyLebovitz comments on "Stupid" questions thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 14 July 2013 02:17:14PM 5 points [-]

My apologies on that last bit-- I just saw "stop thinking you're so fucking right, stop being so short-sightedly involved in your immediate problems, and start looking at things in a more neutral, realistic way" and reacted without checking, instead of seeing that you'd actually written "when you really get involved, you stop thinking you're so fucking right, stop being so short-sightedly involved in your immediate problems, and start looking at things in a more neutral, realistic way".

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 31 July 2013 07:17:13AM 2 points [-]

At the moment, I have 8 upvotes (83% positive) on the grandparent, and 4 upvotes (83% positive) on my retraction. This is weird. My retraction isn't based on anything complicated, it was a simple misreading.

It's not that I think I have too many upvotes on the retraction, though 4 might be a little high-- I think of 2 as more typical. I'm just wondering why I didn't lose more of the upvotes on the grandparent.

I'm hoping it's just a matter of fewer people reading a thread as it gets older.