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Interesting my intention was to be able to see roughly what proportion of readers held the same opinion of the commenter.
by uptownfunk 4y ago
Interesting my intention was to be able to see roughly what proportion of readers held the same opinion of the commenter.
- troydavis 4y ago> my intention was to be able to see roughly what proportion of readers held the same opinion of the commenter Ideally, someone upvotes a comment because the comment is thoughtful, not because the user agrees. While obviously not everyone does that, enough do. The EA Forum has two pairs of buttons: upvote/downvote (quality) and I agree/I disagree. Here’s more on that: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2JQQZevGENbChSA8k/agree-disagree-voting-and-other-new-features-september-2022 https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2JQQZevGENbChSA8k/...
- uptownfunk 4y agoGot it thanks for clarifying !
- uptownfunk 4y agoEg maybe instead of vote counts it was percent of upvotes or something.
- mindcrime 4y agoI believe pg felt that people shouldn't have access to that information. The idea being, I think, that people should decide entirely independently, based on the merits of the comment judged in isolation, whether to upvote or not. As opposed to, say, a situation where a bunch of people upvote a comment for no other reason than "a bunch of other people already upvoted it." Not saying I agree or disagree with that one way or the other, and my memory of all of this could be a bit off by now. But that's approximately the way I remember the discussion going years ago.