Emile comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong
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I hate to sound complimentary, but... I get the impression that the comments on LW are substantially higher-quality than the comments on OB.
And that the comments on LW come from a smaller group of core readers as well, which is to some extent unfortunate.
I wonder if it's the karma system or the registration requirement that does it?
I had that impression mostly when I went back and read some old OB comments - for example, a lot of comments on Archimedes's Chronophone seem to just miss the point of the article.
I would expect the same post would get higher-quality proposals today - but then, maybe it's because the set of LW comments I read is biased towards those with high karma. Or maybe it's because the threading system makes it easier to read a set of related comments without getting confused.