AnnaSalamon comments on Of Gender and Rationality - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 April 2009 12:56AM

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Comment author: AnnaSalamon 16 April 2009 09:22:26AM *  2 points [-]

I like it :). Two small suggestions:

  1. You might consider changing the phrase "please feel free to leave a comment" -- it might be more welcoming to just ask people to "please leave a comment", giving the impression that we want to hear from them. (Though I'm not confident this would be better.)

  2. It would be nice to invite questions, not only on LW jargon (which you do), but on the etiquette of posting and voting, why those mean people may have downvoted one of your comments (and why you shouldn't take that to mean we won't appreciate you), etc. I'm not sure how to gracefully incorporate this into your text.

Eliezer should add a link from LW's "About" page. (Except, the link should move somehow with the month's welcome thread, if we have new ones every month. What's your plan here?)

Comment author: MBlume 16 April 2009 09:37:00AM 3 points [-]

hmm, here's a spiel on voting and karma, I'm a little worried that it sounds too forbidding -- what do you think?

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Comment author: AnnaSalamon 16 April 2009 08:46:32PM *  2 points [-]

My non-confident impression is that it's good. One slightly friendlier suggestion would be to replace "Don't be discouraged by this." with "Don't be discouraged by this; it happened to many of us."

Thanks for building us the welcome thread.

Comment author: MBlume 16 April 2009 09:11:56PM 0 points [-]

Don't be discouraged by this; it happened to many of us.

I like that

Thanks for building us the welcome thread.

No problem =)

Comment author: MBlume 16 April 2009 09:28:14AM *  0 points [-]

1 Done =)

giving the impression that we want to hear from them.

Is "We'd love to know who you are, what you're doing, and how you found us." too strong do you think?

2 Good idea -- let's see what I can come up with....

What's your plan here?

Yeah, I'm not sure how well this works with the one-a-month structure. Ideally I'd like this thread to be stickied to the front page, but I know that requires some admin-help.

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