LessWrong is built on the bedrock of the Sequences.

Agreed, but is that doesn't mean that linking to them is the high watermark of Bayesian thought or whatever you're trying to measure?

You'd generally link to the sequences when you're speaking with someone who hasn't read them. So basically your interactions with new users and trolls now carry far more weight than they should.

Why would you link to the sequences when you're speaking with someone who's familiar with them? It'd be like bringing up 'we breathe oxygen' every few sentences.

Yes, the sequences are important. But that doesn't automatically make linking to them a good metric for usefulness to the community.

Stop pretending like everything he's ever written is SIAI-cult-propaganda.

Never claimed that, never will.

Personally, I seem to have a few instances available where I've done just that.

Have you linked to every single comment you think is relevant/useful/thoughtful? To 80% of them? 60?