Therefore, I propose gathering all of Less Wrong's policies and norms into a top-level post. I also think it's very important that the contents of that post be representative of the opinions of the Less Wrong community. With that in mind, I'm going to make a thread for gathering proposed Less Wrong norms and links to pre-existing norms. One week later, someone (not necessarily me) will take every comment which is above a score threshold, which contains a concise description of a norm, and which has not had any serious objections raised against it, add some non-substantive introductory and connecting text, and post it for posterity.

It is extremely unlikely that I will approve of such a subject nearly as much as I approved of this post. In fact it is not unlikely that I will wholeheartedly oppose it. Creating a list of rules like this is a step in totally the wrong direction. Further, discussions in some thread will operate by a different mechanism than looking at how all the norms fit together in a non ideal context. Signalling concerns usually prevent such rules from being practical. That is, rules tend to be created that presume a naive understanding of the way systems work.

Whenever you create a system of rules (or "up-voted norm conversations posted for posterity") they will be gamed.