alyssavance comments on Proposed New Features for Less Wrong - Less Wrong

7 Post author: alyssavance 27 April 2010 01:10AM

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Comment author: RobinZ 27 April 2010 02:10:28AM 13 points [-]

"High quality standard" is not the problem, then - the problem is being intimidating to new users. That would seem to suggest (a) better introductory materials, better indexed, (b) always being willing to teach Less Wrong 101 whenever people ask, and (c) cutting slack for intelligent, well-meaning newbies.

That said, I suspect "coming off as a load of crackpots" is a bigger problem when it comes to driving away potential contributors.

Comment author: alyssavance 27 April 2010 02:16:53AM *  0 points [-]

Agreed. Proposals #1 and #2 are both attempts to implement (c).