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Brillyant comments on Voiceofra is banned - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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Comment author: Brillyant 23 December 2015 10:10:19PM -2 points [-]

I think zero time should be devoted to solutions for excessive downvoting of old material. Rather, the mods and other de facto leaders ought to devote their time to finding ways to reinvigorate LW with new interesting content.

Comment author: ChristianKl 23 December 2015 10:37:48PM 13 points [-]

If you have people being demotivated because of downvoting that reduces the chances that those people will write new interesting content.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 24 December 2015 10:06:16AM 4 points [-]

I would like see a resurgence of interesting content myself, but that isn't the same thing as giving up on maintenance.

Anyone here can work on interesting content. Do you have any ideas for encouraging it?

Comment author: Brillyant 24 December 2015 02:17:55PM -1 points [-]

Not really.

Maintenance is fine. But the lack of content is priority one with a bullet IMO. If the power user base wants to divvy up resources rationally, I think this sort of ban is very low on the list.

Comment author: username2 24 December 2015 07:07:52PM 0 points [-]

It's not like banning a single user takes a lot of resources.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 25 December 2015 03:17:29AM 2 points [-]

In one sense, banning someone takes almost no resources-- all I have to do is enter their name into two web pages. However, thinking about whether to ban someone takes rather more time. Likewise if I chose discuss a banning.