The privilege-as-bias discussion has been had a few times, including in the context of gendered pronouns.
Which is no reason not to have it again, I suppose, but I encourage you to think carefully before doing so about your strategy for progressing it further than previous incarnations have, so we don't keep going 'round the same mulberry bush.
Unrelatedly, tradition isn't a bad thing to appeal to when it comes to the meaning of words, or really to any activity that depends on a community's predictable adherence to conventions.
Why do we drive on the right side of the road in the U.S. rather than the left, and stop at red lights and go at green lights rather than vice-versa, and use "hello" to greet people rather than "ahoy" or "shoelace"? Basically, tradition.
Would it be better to switch? Well, maybe. But for at least some of those things, it's better only if we all switch at once, which is difficult to manage.
In the next month, the administrators of Less Wrong are going to sit down with a professional designer to tweak the site design. But before they do, now is your chance to make suggestions that will guide their redesign efforts.
How can we improve the Less Wrong user experience? What features aren’t working? What features don’t exist? What would you change about the layout, templates, images, navigation, comment nesting, post/comment editing, side-bars, RSS feeds, color schemes, etc? Do you have specific CSS or HTML changes you'd make to improve load time, SEO, or other valuable metrics?
The rules for this thread are:
BUT DON’T JUMP TO THE COMMENTS JUST YET: Take a few minutes to collect your thoughts and write down your own ideas before reading others’ suggestions. Less contamination = more unique ideas + better feature coverage!
Thanks for your help!