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ChristianKl comments on Link: How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 18 September 2014 07:07:35AM 4 points [-]

Second, I find questionable the authors' conclusion that negative evaluations cause the subsequent decline in post quality and increase in post frequency, since they did not control the positive/negative evaluations. They model the positive/negative evaluations as random acts of chance

If a community really votes as random acts of chance, that explains that the voting doesn't lead to good behavior ;)