jaimeastorga2000 comments on [META] Introduction thread attitudes and discussions - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Vaniver 02 January 2012 01:18AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 January 2012 03:22:19AM 7 points [-]

At present, 150 of the 270 comments are children of Bakkot's comment, arguing about infanticide. It seems obvious to me that we ought to seriously discourage promoting discussion on ideas in introduction threads, and instead point people to open threads / a primer on writing discussion posts.

Another possible solution is to have new introduction treads on a more regular basis. Say, monthly, like quotes threads, or as they fill up, like MoR threads.

Comment author: Multiheaded 02 January 2012 12:45:06PM *  9 points [-]

children of Bakkot's comment

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arguing about infanticide

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discourage promoting discussion

Heh. Whoa. How'd you call something like this. A meta-rhyme or something?

Comment author: Vaniver 02 January 2012 12:55:51PM 5 points [-]

This may be the better solution, as many discussions that newbies may be interested in having are things that would get voted down if they were discussion posts, but not as someone's first LW discussion.