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Lumifer comments on Should you write longer comments? (Statistical analysis of the relationship between comment length and ratings) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 21 July 2015 04:22:47PM 4 points [-]

I don't expect that an incentive to add some unnecessary volume will improve the quality of comments.

Recall Blaise Pascal's "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time" :-)

Comment author: Elo 22 July 2015 01:47:03AM 0 points [-]

a lovely quote, I would not say that volume is correlated with quality, but I would say the potential benefits outweigh the disadvantages. Obviously enough people disagree with me.