This makes me wish there were a popular LW- or EAF-ish forum that doesn’t use the karma system (or uses a very different karma system). If karma sometimes makes errors sticky because disagreement gets downvoted, then it would be nice to have more venues that don’t have exactly that issue.
(Also, if more forums exist, this makes it likelier that different forums will downvote different things, so a wider variety of ideas can be explored in at least one place.)
This is also another reason to roll out separate upvotes for ‘I like this’ versus ‘I agree with this’.
This makes me wish there were a popular LW- or EAF-ish forum that doesn’t use the karma system (or uses a very different karma system). If karma sometimes makes errors sticky because disagreement gets downvoted, then it would be nice to have more venues that don’t have exactly that issue.
(Also, if more forums exist, this makes it likelier that different forums will downvote different things, so a wider variety of ideas can be explored in at least one place.)
This is also another reason to roll out separate upvotes for ‘I like this’ versus ‘I agree with this’.