gwern comments on Open Thread, August 2010-- part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 13 August 2010 07:31:37AM 2 points [-]

I don't do this on LessWrong, but that may be because I don't care enough about LW, and the stakes are too low.

On Wikipedia, though, there are at least 10 editors who, when I see their name come up on my watchlist, I briefly freeze up with a combination of fear, disgust, and anger.

Comment author: kodos96 13 August 2010 07:43:02AM 2 points [-]

Just curious: why do you consider LW to be lower stakes than wikipedia?

Comment author: gwern 13 August 2010 08:06:52AM 6 points [-]

Fewer deletions. On Wikipedia, I have to fight tooth and nail for some things just to remain (and I often fail; I'm still a little bitter about the off-handed deletion of the Man-Faye article a few days ago); on LW, deletion of stuff is so rare that it's a major event when Eliezer deletes an article.