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Lumifer comments on Flowsheet Logic and Notecard Logic - Less Wrong Discussion

25 Post author: moridinamael 09 September 2015 04:42PM

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 15 September 2015 03:49:25PM 2 points [-]

I got 90% of my upvotes because my opinion happened to align with the majority group's on a contentious topic. It's hard to complain overmuch about downvotes for the same reason. Granted, it's also hard to hold upvotes/downvotes in any kind of regard anymore; hell, my most upvoted comments of all time were social commentary on an issue 90%+ of the people involved were mindkilled on, rather than any of the meaningful contributions I've attempted.

Comment author: Lumifer 15 September 2015 04:15:19PM 2 points [-]

Karma is a passable negative feedback tool, but it's a horrible positive feedback tool.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 16 September 2015 05:59:53AM 0 points [-]

My intuition would have been the opposite. Can you explain?

Comment author: Lumifer 16 September 2015 06:09:28AM 1 point [-]

Maybe an example will help.

If you take pictures and post them on photography websites, the "likes" will tell you that you should photograph sunsets, puppies, and well-lit soft porn. That's... really bad advice :-/