common_law comments on Dealing with meta-discussion and the signal to noise ratio - Less Wrong

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Comment author: common_law 04 September 2012 11:03:17PM 0 points [-]

If I can try to get you to be more specific--was it perhaps something you recently learned about LW "culture"? Such as was contained in a recently published expose?

I was turned off too.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 05 September 2012 12:20:02AM 0 points [-]

I was a Visiting Fellow at SingInst for about two years—I know way more about it than can be found in that article. The reason for the change in my strategies is simply that I learned that I can have most of my comments downvoted while still reaching a good fraction of the more interesting people on LessWrong. It's been a long time since I've cared about LessWrong as a community, I'm only here to interact with the interesting folk. LessWrong is still a hub for them. Even Nick Szabo's been stopping by recently.