Lawliet comments on So you say you're an altruist... - Less Wrong

11 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 12 March 2009 10:15PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 March 2009 10:46:33PM 8 points [-]

Please remember that we're supposed to be able to submit links, not just original essays. Anyone downvoting on that basis (rather than dislike of the link itself) is making an error about Less Wrong posting policies. A link like this wouldn't be promoted to the front page but it's okay to vote up if you like the content.

Comment author: Lawliet 12 March 2009 10:51:56PM 3 points [-]

Why cant linked articles be promoted? Do they have to be original content written specifically for LessWrong? Can they be cross posted elsewhere?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 March 2009 11:01:03PM 5 points [-]

Really good linked articles could be promoted, or crossposted ones. But because the amount of possible content of this sort is so high, the general policy, I think, should be to not promote anything that isn't really good, while being highly tolerant of links that are genuinely interesting.

Comment author: BrandonReinhart 13 March 2009 12:29:06AM 2 points [-]

There may be a bug in that this article shows up as a "top" scoring one although when I viewed the article it had zero points assigned.