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TheAncientGeek comments on Guidelines for Upvoting and Downvoting? - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: Sable 06 May 2015 11:51AM

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 11 May 2015 10:24:08AM 0 points [-]

The results will fall short of perfection but that isnt a good reason no to try. Fallacy of gray.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 11 May 2015 10:26:13AM *  0 points [-]

I am not saying you shouldn't try, I am saying given the current state of things, it is probably safe to ignore any karma score that isn't very positive or very negative. It's hard to get signal from other scores.

Let's say a post of mine has -2 total karma. What should I conclude from this? My point is, essentially nothing.