Disagree. This is like saying, “Amazon shouldn’t sort by 1 star, because otherwise it will get a bad reputation for selling bad products.”
That’s wrong. People still have the option of sorting by whatever they choose. But the forum should give more visibility to posts that break people out of their comfort zone, should they desire.
The reason I disagree is in my view, the internet already rewards controversiality and outrage way too much, and this is something that makes the EA forum much better because they avoid outrage and controversiality driving the process.
controversiality need not be extremely correlated with outrage. in fact, outrage can be very uncontroversial (school shooting). and controverisality is often productive (debate about X). my inclination is to trust the readership of this forum. promoting visibility to controversial posts will help people discuss ideas they’ve neglected.
The reason I disagree is in my view, the internet already rewards controversiality and outrage way too much, and this is something that makes the EA forum much better because they avoid outrage and controversiality driving the process.
controversiality need not be extremely correlated with outrage. in fact, outrage can be very uncontroversial (school shooting). and controverisality is often productive (debate about X). my inclination is to trust the readership of this forum. promoting visibility to controversial posts will help people discuss ideas they’ve neglected.