@tobycrisford 🔸 unfortunately on mamy animal welfare threads, more extreme dissenting views get downvoted to oblivion without strong up votes (like mine and yours) to compensate. This pattern seems mostly to apply to animal welfare threads unfortunately, and I think more discourse would be encouraged if animal welfare supporters didn’t obliterate dissenting views.
Only a handful of us, including myself and @Henry Howard🔸 engage with different perspectives on these animal welfare threads and I think it would be more useful if these kind of comments were encouraged, even if only to better understand what many (probably most) non EA people might be intuiting and thinking when they see these arguments.
I’m mostly not engaging with these threads because I often don’t find the engagement particularly rewarding unfortunately. I’ll keep trying from time to time :D
I think @Henry Howard🔸 s 2 points are very important, even if you don’t necessarily agree with them.
Agreed Nick. One of my recent comments has 7 agrees, 11 disagrees but −10 karma. If 7 people agree with a comment it’s unlikely to be disruptive trolling that needs to be buried.
Clear misuse of voting and evidence of heavy forum bias that I sense but can’t prove.
I’m not sure it’s “misuse” of voting exactly, I think people should vote how they want. I just think this downvoting pattern is unfortunate for encouraging discourse and a diversity of views.
@tobycrisford 🔸 unfortunately on mamy animal welfare threads, more extreme dissenting views get downvoted to oblivion without strong up votes (like mine and yours) to compensate. This pattern seems mostly to apply to animal welfare threads unfortunately, and I think more discourse would be encouraged if animal welfare supporters didn’t obliterate dissenting views.
Only a handful of us, including myself and @Henry Howard🔸 engage with different perspectives on these animal welfare threads and I think it would be more useful if these kind of comments were encouraged, even if only to better understand what many (probably most) non EA people might be intuiting and thinking when they see these arguments.
I’m mostly not engaging with these threads because I often don’t find the engagement particularly rewarding unfortunately. I’ll keep trying from time to time :D
I think @Henry Howard🔸 s 2 points are very important, even if you don’t necessarily agree with them.
Agreed Nick. One of my recent comments has 7 agrees, 11 disagrees but −10 karma. If 7 people agree with a comment it’s unlikely to be disruptive trolling that needs to be buried.
Clear misuse of voting and evidence of heavy forum bias that I sense but can’t prove.
I’m not sure it’s “misuse” of voting exactly, I think people should vote how they want. I just think this downvoting pattern is unfortunate for encouraging discourse and a diversity of views.