What do you mean by “better” here? That there is a discrepancy suggests to me that people are voting for different reasons between the two places, not that the voting is better in some universal way (compare the way “better” in economics could mean redistribution to things you like or more efficiency so everyone gets more of what they want).
Also, just further noting voting patterns, no disrespect intended to you kbog, but your comment contains little content (in a very straightforward sense: it is short) and is purely a statement of opinion with no justification provided (though some is implied), yet at time of writing has 6 votes for 14 karma, which relative to what I see on average comments on EAF, where more thorough comments receive less karma and less attention, suggests to me you hit an applause light and people are upvoting it for that reason rather than anything else.
None of this is to say people can’t vote the way they like or that you don’t deserve the karma. I merely seek to highlight how people seem to use voting today. The way people use voting is not aligned with how I would like voting to be used, hence why I mention these things and am interested in them, but it is also not up to me to shape this particular mechanism.
I think people use upvotes both to signal agreement and to highlight thoughtful, effortful, or detailed comments. I think it’s fairly clear that Kbog’s comments was upvoted because people agreed with it, not because people thought it was a particularly insightful comment. That doesn’t preclude people upvoting posts for being high quality.
If your point is more that people don’t generally upvote quality posts that they disagree with, then I would probably agree with that.
My takeaway is that the EA forum’s voting is better than LessWrong’s.
What do you mean by “better” here? That there is a discrepancy suggests to me that people are voting for different reasons between the two places, not that the voting is better in some universal way (compare the way “better” in economics could mean redistribution to things you like or more efficiency so everyone gets more of what they want).
Also, just further noting voting patterns, no disrespect intended to you kbog, but your comment contains little content (in a very straightforward sense: it is short) and is purely a statement of opinion with no justification provided (though some is implied), yet at time of writing has 6 votes for 14 karma, which relative to what I see on average comments on EAF, where more thorough comments receive less karma and less attention, suggests to me you hit an applause light and people are upvoting it for that reason rather than anything else.
None of this is to say people can’t vote the way they like or that you don’t deserve the karma. I merely seek to highlight how people seem to use voting today. The way people use voting is not aligned with how I would like voting to be used, hence why I mention these things and am interested in them, but it is also not up to me to shape this particular mechanism.
I think people use upvotes both to signal agreement and to highlight thoughtful, effortful, or detailed comments. I think it’s fairly clear that Kbog’s comments was upvoted because people agreed with it, not because people thought it was a particularly insightful comment. That doesn’t preclude people upvoting posts for being high quality.
If your point is more that people don’t generally upvote quality posts that they disagree with, then I would probably agree with that.
My (small) update is also this, except confined to posts criticizing EA.