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Comment author: Epiphany 08 December 2012 11:42:32PM *  0 points [-]

Endless September Poll:

I condensed the feedback I got in the last few threads into a summary of pros and cons of each solution idea if you would like to something for reference.

How concerned should we be about LessWrong's culture being impacted by:

...overwhelming user influx?

...trending toward the mean?

...some other cause?

(Please explain the other causes in the comments.)

Which is the best solution for:

...overwhelming user influx?

(Assuming user is of right type/attitude, too many users for acculturation capacity.)

...trending toward the mean?

(Assuming user is of wrong type/attitude, regardless of acculturation capacity.)

...other cause of cultural collapse?

Note: Ideas that involve splitting the registered users into multiple forums were not included for the reasons explained here.

Note: "The Center for Modern Rationality" was renamed to "The Center for Applied Rationality".

Submitting...

Comment author: faul_sname 09 December 2012 12:34:10AM 16 points [-]

You're focusing on negative reinforcement for bad comments. What we need is positive reinforcement for good comments. Because there are so many ways for a comment to be bad, discouraging any given type of bad comment will do effectively nothing to encourage good comments.

"Don't write bad posts/comments" is not what we want. "Write good posts/comments" is what we want, and confusing the two means nothing will get done.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 09 December 2012 10:56:39PM 4 points [-]

We need to discourage comments that are not-good. Not just plainly bad. Only... not adding value, but still taking time to read.

The time lost per one comment is trivial, but the time lost by reading thousand comments isn't. How long does it take LW to produce thousand comments? A few days at most.

This article alone has about 100 comments. Did you get 100 insights from reading them?

Comment author: Epiphany 09 December 2012 12:48:01AM 0 points [-]

That's a good observation but for the record, the solution ideas were created by the group, not just me.

If you want to see more positive reinforcement suggestions being considered, why not share a few of yours?

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