Nornagest comments on Poll - Is endless September a threat to LW and what should be done? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Epiphany 09 December 2012 12:37:27AM *  1 point [-]

Why do the first three questions have four variations on the theme of "new users are likely to erode the culture" and nothing intermediate between that and "there is definitely no problem at all"?

Why do you not see the "eroded the culture" options as intermediate options? The way I see it is there are three sections of answers that suggest a different level of concern:

  1. There's a problem.
  2. There's some cultural erosion but it's not a problem (Otherwise you'd pick #1.)
  3. There's not a problem.

What intermediate options would you suggest?

Why ask for the "best solution" rather than asking "which of these do you think are good ideas"?

A. Because the poll code does not make check boxes where you select more than one. It makes radio buttons where you can select only one.

B. I don't have infinite time to code every single idea.

If more solutions are needed, we can do another vote and add the best one from that (assuming I have time). One thing at a time.

Comment author: Nornagest 09 December 2012 01:24:38AM 0 points [-]

The option I wanted to see but didn't was something along the lines of "somewhat, but not because of cultural erosion".

Comment author: Epiphany 09 December 2012 01:55:34AM *  0 points [-]

Well, I did not imagine all the possibilities for what concerns you guys would have in order to choose verbiage sufficiently vague enough that those options would work as perfect catch-alls, but I did as for "other causes" in the comments, and I'm interested to see the concerns that people are adding like "EY stopped posting" and "We don't have enough good posters" which aren't about cultural erosion, but about a lapse in the stream of good content.

If you have concerns about the future of LessWrong not addressed so far in this discussion, please feel free to add them to the comments, however unrelated they are to the words used in my poll.