JohnDavidBustard comments on Reflections on a Personal Public Relations Failure: A Lesson in Communication - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 02 October 2010 11:24:30PM 1 point [-]

I understand how you feel about this, but I think most of the veterans would think more of a person who showed them respect by getting feedback before putting their first post on the main page. Certainly I would.

...I wonder if it would be possible to implement the following feature: the first post for a new account automatically goes to the Discussion page for a few days before it posts to the main site. If that were a known feature,would you be bothered by it?

Comment author: JohnDavidBustard 03 October 2010 01:43:11PM 0 points [-]

I think this comment highlights the distinction between popular and good.

High ranked posts are popular, good may or may not have anything to do with it.

Personally I find all this kowtowing to the old guard a bit distasteful. One of my favorite virtues of academia is the double blind submissions process. Perhaps there are similar approaches that could be taken here.