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Vaniver comments on Should there be more people on the leaderboard? - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: casebash 02 September 2015 11:52AM

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Comment author: Vaniver 02 September 2015 04:34:01PM 2 points [-]

you don't want your positive karma percentage to be near 100%, because it indicates you are being consumed by the hive mind.

I think there are aspects of posting where one most certainly wants to be 'consumed by the hivemind'--if your posts are never so poorly reasoned that you get a downvote for that reason, then more power to you!

And if one is polite, clear, and kind, one can weigh in on controversial topics with a different view than the hivemind and still not get downvoted.

Comment author: Lumifer 02 September 2015 04:41:24PM 2 points [-]

If you succeed at everything you're not taking enough risks :-P