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Lumifer comments on Voiceofra is banned - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: NancyLebovitz 23 December 2015 06:29PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 23 December 2015 08:11:29PM *  17 points [-]

Making voting public would go a long way

...towards LOTS of drama, enemy lists, political intrigue, etc.

Comment author: Vaniver 23 December 2015 08:40:30PM *  2 points [-]

Stack Overflow makes cast vote counts public, so one could get an idea of who is doing the voting. Figuring out who is voting on what would only be possible if you're watching everyone always (and even then it won't work if user displays only update periodically).

I do think that there's value in someone looking at the vote graph, be it humans or automated processes.

Comment author: Lumifer 23 December 2015 09:01:15PM *  0 points [-]

That value depends on how much value there is in karma to start with. Preoccupation with karma is a bad sign.

Comment author: Vaniver 23 December 2015 09:05:05PM 2 points [-]

The map is not the territory, but that doesn't mean there's no value in cartography!

Comment author: Lumifer 23 December 2015 09:11:49PM 2 points [-]

Cartography is valuable, but if an explorer spends all his time reading and redrawing maps without venturing outside, something is wrong :-/