Wei_Dai comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 25 July 2009 01:07:16PM *  6 points [-]

I don't think it's in-group bias. If anything, people are giving mni extra latitude because he or she is seen as new here.

If an established member of the community were to make the same points, that much of the discussion is uninteresting or bullshit, that the community is failing and maybe not worth "wasting" time for, and to claim to have interesting things to say but make excuses for not actually saying them, I bet there would be a lot more criticism in response.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 25 July 2009 01:16:33PM 2 points [-]

As I wrote, anger is an improbable reaction for me, and there doesn't seem to be anything extraordinarily angering about that comment, so I can't justify that emotion appearing in this particular instance. The fact that the poster isn't a regular might be a factor as well.