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Bakkot comments on [META] Introduction thread attitudes and discussions - Less Wrong
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If the point of introduction threads is to get potential newbies introduced to the community, I feel like encouraging discussion in the introduction threads is just about the best way of doing that. You don't become part of a community by saying hi and have other people say hi back - you become part of a community by interacting with it.
If the concern is scaring off newcomers (as, certainly, some of the comments on AspiringKnitter's ran the risk of doing), then perhaps a policy of being very, very gentle in the introductory threads would be preferred, while people get used to the community's somewhat direct way of discussing things.
PS: If you'd like, I can try to move discussion from the posts on my comment to an open thread, although I'm not sure how much luck I'd have with that.
PPS: I'm not a proponent of infanticide. kthnx :)
Thinking about this... it seems likely to me that if we could manage it, encouraging newbies to start their own threads in the discussion section (or in open threads) rather than launch active discussions in the introduction thread itself would be an even more effective means of getting them involved/introduced.
Like you, I'm not sure how effective we'd be at actually doing that.
All that said, I don't think it's a big deal. I think we're seeing an exceptional blip at the moment, but it will die down once the people willing to update do, and the people unwilling to update exhaust the patience of everyone else.