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Let's have a poll. Vote this comment up if you're in favor of using the sub-Reddit for assorted discussions instead of using open threads.
Other voting option is here, Karma balance is here
Vote this comment up if you're opposed to moving discussions from open threads to the sub-Reddit.
Karma balance is here
Where's the "neither" option? I don't like open threads, but neither I do going off site. Why can't we have a sub-lesswrong?
"Where's the "neither" option? I don't like open threads, but neither I do going off site. Why can't we have a sub-lesswrong?"
Because this is hard to implement. If you want to implement it yourself, please do so.
If LessWrong is based on Reddit, and Reddit can spawn subreddits at will, why can't LessWrong do the same?
Reddit's codebase has been heavily modified for Less Wrong, and subreddits can't be introduced without breaking the site. Seriously. People have tried to do this. It's hard.
There is a major problem with this. I wrote code to enable polls in comments, which is currently in testing and likely to be rolled out soon. This won't be available on the Subreddit, nor will any other improvements I or anyone else may make to the Less Wrong codebase in the future, unless we get those features rolled out for all of Reddit, which is unlikely. I am opposed.
"This won't be available on the Subreddit, nor will any other improvements I or anyone else may make to the Less Wrong codebase in the future, unless we get those features rolled out for all of Reddit, which is unlikely."
That's great- don't get me wrong!- but this just means that, if you want to conduct a poll, you should do it on LW instead of the sub-reddit. The two are not intended to be mutually exclusive; you're supposed to use both.
It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. The problem is that the open threads are over-crowded, so having another place to discuss off-topic things should help make it easier to use them too.
How do you decide which to use? Is there something in particular that the open threads would be for?
Let me know if you can read the notice for this comment in your message center - judging by the pattern of crashed pages, it's a comment in reply to this one which is crashing Less Wrong.
I can, it worked.
"How do you decide which to use? Is there something in particular that the open threads would be for?"
Whichever you feel like. You could (and quite plausibly should) post it to both, actually, at least for now.
I guess that's the main thing I don't like about this idea. Especially if people cross-post to both, the resulting discussion will get fragmented between the two sites (or everyone will have to remember to post their replies to both).