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tut comments on Open thread, July 29-August 4, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: BlindIdiotPoster 04 August 2013 10:52:10PM 4 points [-]

One thing that bothers me about this community is that we all clearly have political views and regularly express them, but for some reason explicit discussion and debate is discouraged. The end result here is that lots of people casually assert extremely controversial opinions as fact and people are expected to approve via silence.

Comment author: tut 06 August 2013 04:15:02PM 6 points [-]

... and people are expected to approve via silence.

That's what the downvote (and upvote) button is for. Reading == agreeing isn't a very good heuristic, and with the karma system you don't have to use it.