Cayenne comments on Building rationalist communities: lessons from the Latter-day Saints - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cayenne 10 May 2011 08:51:04AM *  5 points [-]

Although drawing some ideas from the LDS church may work, and I will be trying a few of them in my community building efforts, I am going to shy away from a lot of the more intrusive practices. I'm ex-Mormon, and I'm not going to be implementing anything that makes me uncomfortable.

The problem with everyone having a responsibility is that there must be a structure of authority to delegate the responsibility. We don't have or want a divine authority. We absolutely don't want to use something web-based for this either; something like karma is a bad metric since the people that have the time to get the most karma may be very uncomfortable in positions of leadership. I don't yet have a solution to this.

tl;dr: some ideas may be good, but it will take careful vetting.

Edit - please disregard this post