It seems that sometimes, similar responses to a similar question and tone generate different reactions from Lichess users.
For example, when people ask serious questions in the off-topic forum, and someone responds with a comical and irrelevant remark, that post gets bombarded with dislikes.
Other times, users simply receive mostly positive reactions for humorous comments.
How can we strive to reduce this?
By "serious" do you mean like "my teacher hated on me today what should I do I can't tell my GF cause she hates me as well and my mom always likes my little brother best"?
No, I mean legitimate questions asking for stoic responses.
Not questions that have a possibility of a high rate of jocular responses.
Example:
Serious question: How much sleep should I get every day?
7 or 8 hours every day.
We can get rid of the anchoring bias within the forums if we work together, just like how we worked together to reduce the number of people who just quote a post and say "agree" or another low-effort statement.
Oh yeah you mean like getting dislikes for linking and quoting the forum etiquette to stop adverts in the forum?
@J_SEDA_conant said in #6:
> Oh yeah you mean like getting dislikes for linking and quoting the forum etiquette to stop adverts in the forum?
No, just google to see what the anchoring bias is before responding.
@InkyDarkBird ...which is exactly what I’m referring to.
The first piece of information presented to the people is the advert in the forum. They judge my denouncement of the advert based on their first piece of information and dislike it.
But I love the anchoring bias!
Before doing it in Lichess forums we need to follow it on ourselves in real life to prevent us from the web of anchoring bias!
