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Gleb_Tsipursky comments on Weirdness at the wiki - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: NancyLebovitz 30 November 2015 11:37PM

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Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 02 December 2015 05:10:05AM 0 points [-]

Yup, this comment by VoiceOfRa in particular is something I would pay most attention to. When I originally saw it, it was below the threshhold for comments, and had negative six karma. Next time I saw it, it had positive 4 karma. Since attention was drawn to it, it went to positive 2 karma. Still, I have a lot of trouble believing actual Less Wrongers went below the threshhold, then actually upvoted it to positive 4. I would be willing to bet quite a bit of money sock puppetry was involved.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 December 2015 10:58:37AM 4 points [-]

Given the tone of discussions I wouldn't be surprised if there's a highly bimodal distribution of opinions on the subject --- and I'm sure there are loads of LWers who read and vote but don't comment.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 02 December 2015 04:35:09PM -1 points [-]

I wouldn't be surprised either by bimodal distribution, but I have a strong probabilistic estimate that people won't click on below the fold comments just to read and upvote them. This is the reason for my statement of being willing to bet quite a bit of money on sock puppetry-style activities, either direct sock puppets or voting ring. I don't take making bets lightly :-)