out of all places, I’d like to believe that EA community should not be the zone where people have to think of costs for being transparent or honest. If it is the case, it is unfortunate and we might want to change a lot internally before trying to think about the world outside EA.
Maria Evans
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Yea agreeably so! In order to prevent this, it would be helpful to atleast set a reasoning dialogue box before downvoting. If possible the names should also be displayed for both upvoters and downvoters. This brings transparency and responsibility.
P.S: I’m referring to healthy transparency and responsible behaviour. I can’t help but think that the coordinating team who did not have valid justifications for their claims or an answer to my comment, could have done the heavy downvoting instead of owning up the situation and turn up responsibly.
to be honest, have seen much unfriendlier counters here in the forum. I don’t understand why is being friendly even a topic here? I have been following this post, the person below me,must be a group organiser from India, was agreeably much more “collaborative” and I literally saw her upvotes going from like 5 to 3. So I do not agree to the point that friendliness or collaborative tone has to do anything with this.
It is a different factor that down-voters might have different motives altogether which does not help anyone (neither the commentor nor the others reading) if the reason is not provided.
Can we have what I’d call ‘responsible downvoting’ on the forum from coming year onwards?
I recently saw that one of my recent comments from a post on EAGxIndia pointing out a relevant fact which got upvoted before- has now been downvoted heavily, without any follow-up questions or a reason.
Yea I mean this orangish layout is definitely new right?
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Forum is looking pretty these days!
It kind of seems that the current coordinating team has already decided (on behalf of the attendees) that their “overall decision turned out to be okay” instead of actually putting up some facts and figures as to who/how many people were reached out to and what were their feedback.
Guess how this post resonated with me? I too believe that EA community needs to make way more space for people with innovative mindsets and pave way for individuals who are trying to think beyond mechanistic expectations and call to actions. I myself didn’t join the forum until recently since I knew the vibe was very mechanical and mostly too much cautious and preachy. We should aim for experimentation as a community and in that line all the best for the podcast!
Splendid! Do we by chance have people working with these streaming platforms on this forum?
The first advice: Invite a friend to an event-It’s interesting how one can even host it without extra disposable money and time.
One of my colleagues got declined for a group support funding for an event they wanted to host last year and guess what he hasn’t spoken about Effective Altruism since. It’s interesting how the community support grantmakers think it is easily possible to host events without any support and how the community builders are taken for granted.
Wow this was cool! Any update on this?