drethelin comments on Compromise: Send Meta Discussions to the Unofficial LessWrong Subreddit - Less Wrong

-4 Post author: orthonormal 23 April 2013 01:37AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 24 April 2013 08:12:27AM 5 points [-]

Meta discussions can sometimes be very productive, like when they result in some beneficial change in site policy or an insight that makes subsequent discussions go a bit better (see this post for an example). I'm curious why orthonormal (or others) find meta discussions so annoying. Is it just that they have a tendency to be low quality and unproductive, or is it something inherent in being meta?

Comment author: drethelin 24 April 2013 02:40:10PM 2 points [-]

There are a lot of terrible discussions on this site, any time you can them lump together into a category that category becomes salient and acquires horns for people. "Meta" "Pua" "Gender issues" etc.