John_Maxwell_IV comments on How can we get more and better LW contrarians? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 18 April 2012 11:26:33PM *  5 points [-]

LW seems to be slowly becoming self-obsessed.

This is a good point. Maybe future meta-discussions could be on talk pages for wiki articles, about specific changes to those articles, especially the about page and the FAQ? These actually represent how LW culture is being codified for new users, but unfortunately none of the recent debates seem to of resulted in substantial modification to them.

It's too bad that automatic wiki editing privileges don't come with a certain level of karma; would remove a trivial inconvenience and eliminate wiki spam.

Comment author: matt 25 April 2012 08:31:03PM 1 point [-]

It's too bad that automatic wiki editing privileges don't come with a certain level of karma

Hmmm... you know that wouldn't be too hard to arrange. Keeping the passwords in sync after a change to one account would be much more work, but might be ignorable.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 28 April 2012 08:57:44PM *  1 point [-]

Ideally it seems like you would get your wiki authentication cookie automatically after logging into Less Wrong, so you could log in once and use both. I don't know if that changes things regarding passwords.