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

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 19 April 2012 12:24:33AM 1 point [-]

Of course, listening doesn't leave a record, so it's hard to tell how many people are listening. It's the relative handful of people who reply who define the perceived tone of the site's response.

Or are you suggesting that responding to the substance is a better strategy than simply listening?

Comment author: David_Gerard 19 April 2012 07:02:15AM -1 points [-]

Hmmm. Driving readers away in such a way that they don't even respond strikes me as bad. But in working out what to do about this, I'm left with asking my other-people-simulator, which I strongly suspect will just hand me back the results of typical mind fallacy.