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Lumifer comments on Open Thread April 4 - April 10, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 20 April 2016 03:35:53PM *  0 points [-]

I treat up/downvoting not as a carrot or a stick, but as a message. Accordingly, I either downvote or reply, not both (with rare exceptions).

Basically, if I bother to reply, there is no need for an up/downvote since I've sent a better message.

As an aside, I don't think that tinkering with voting will solve any of LW's problems.

Comment author: FourFire 20 April 2016 05:11:52PM 0 points [-]

Same, unfortunately, I consider this site to be a mostly sunk ship, as previously stated, I've been mostly inactive since 2011, and I never really posted here anyway.