Epiphany comments on Call for Anonymous Narratives by LW Women and Question Proposals (AMA) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kindly 14 September 2012 01:01:29PM 6 points [-]

You're over-reacting to one comment, which made its point well despite using a word you disapprove of. It's not as though Less Wrong identifies itself to the world at large as elitist (although some people, and indeed some users here, may describe it that way).

Furthermore, a policy of "not using the word "elitist"" is completely orthogonal to a policy of "not being abusive to lower IQ people". What makes you think the latter is necessary?

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Comment author: Kindly 14 September 2012 07:16:23PM 3 points [-]

You're stretching the truth. All but the last example were reactions to discussions you started. If you start a discussion on a forum, you should expect some people to disagree with you.

And if you had actually read the Elitist Jerks article past the title, you would have realized that its purpose is to question whether an "elitist" style of moderation is a good idea on another website.

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Comment author: Alicorn 15 September 2012 01:27:49AM 6 points [-]

"We're (a site called elitistjerks.com) exactly the sort of 'well-kept garden' that EY's post is about."

Interpreting that to mean "LessWrong is a bunch of elitist jerks." is a totally valid interpretation.

No. No it is not.

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Comment author: Kindly 15 September 2012 02:15:33AM 4 points [-]

I'm going to ignore the Elitist Jerks article if you don't mind, because really the only association it has with the topic at hand is the name of a community in no way affiliated with Less Wrong, and moreover a casual visitor is unlikely to ever read it.

Besides that, you are mainly seeing reactions to your own posts related to elitism, and I think you're misreading those reactions. In particular, other people don't read comments on the "pro-or-anti-elitist" scale, and their upvotes and downvotes don't reflect that. (See here for why I think your post was downvoted.)

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