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I think this has a lot of potential.
This could be a sort of 'penalty free' (though well moderated, of course) zone to fill with ideas or questions you wouldn't want to make even a discussion level post about. It could be good for requesting information or explanations, maybe. In fact, a penalty free zone detached from the LW main site might actually end up being a good way to get people interested in LW by giving them something to do while dealing with the steep learning curve that the sequences and community norms present. A sort of lower level forum that can attract the people who might otherwise go to a freethought or athiesm or science -centric forum, where they won't feel too intimidated to ask basic questions or have basic discussions.
First part? that's basically the idea yea.
The introducing part would only work for 5 min, then all the newbies and trolls and well meaning but crazy people would ruin it. Just like what happened to the IRC room.
Right; I actually retracted that once it was pointed out that the forum had already attracted a troll and I started thinking about it. I probably should have just edited it down to nothing... I sort of miss the delete button.
I don't mean to stray offtopic too far, but the IRC room is actually pretty good. There have been two or three trolls but they haven't stuck around for more than a few days.
They might have left due to moderation, but if so I wasn't around to see it. If it was then I'd say that's a point in favor of non-LW.com things doing alright with vigilant moderation.
It might have changed since I were there but the prior probability off somehting in that reference class improving is VERY low. There are an at least several weeks long period where it was a cesspool winch cased me to quit.