Annoyance comments on Building Communities vs. Being Rational - Less Wrong

20 Post author: swestrup 31 March 2009 06:35PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 April 2009 02:23:33AM 0 points [-]

Yes, this page is front-page-promotion worthy in terms of upvotes and writing quality, but promoting it seems distinctly self-contradictory.

EDIT: Voted down? Like, you really think that the best way I can help out those who think this is a problem, is to promote fully meta discussion of community discussion to the front page? That really did seem to me like it would be a slap in their face.

Comment author: Annoyance 01 April 2009 03:09:15PM 4 points [-]

Are posts promoted because of their quality, or for another, specific purpose? I don't think the "About Us" link makes this property of lesswrong sufficiently clear.

If posts are promoted for reasons other than their inherent quality, I think this should be stated openly and the reasons made clear.