Morendil comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kevin 16 February 2010 10:10:41PM *  12 points [-]

Less Wrong, especially commenting on it, is ridiculously intimidating to outsiders. I've thought about this problem, and we need some sort of training grounds. Less Less Wrong or something. It's in my queue of top level posts to write.

So the answer to your question is the karma system.

Comment author: Morendil 17 February 2010 09:28:16AM 4 points [-]

I think better orientation of newcomers would be enough.

Another major problem (I believe) is that LW presents as a blog, which is to say, a source of "news", which is at odds with a mission of building a knowledge base on rationality.