Elithrion comments on Great rationality posts by LWers not posted to LW - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Elithrion 17 February 2013 04:23:55AM *  4 points [-]

Not especially - while it removes the disincentives to posting, it also removes the incentives. If I write something, half my motivation is to increase my status and be appreciated (the other half being altruistic - and I'm not sure it's actually "half"). Unless, of course, the writer's group was exclusive in membership and belonging to it were already high-status, but that's probably not the ideal direction to go.

Comment author: Epiphany 17 February 2013 11:14:37PM 0 points [-]

I figured you'd probably say that, but I didn't want to assume my guess was correct. I don't have much inhibition about posting, myself, so I am not entirely sure I understand other's inhibitions.