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Comment author: gwern 06 May 2013 06:56:05PM 16 points [-]

Have you read the comment sections on right wing blogs? Mostly awful.

The average comment isn't too great on LW either.

We have recieved substantial feedback via that mechanism already.

And whatever feedback you have received, you would have received even more feedback. Nupedia vs Wikipedia - wait, is that example so excellent that you don't even know what Nupedia is? Closer to home, then: OB published everything sent to it, yet Eliezer discovered when LW was turned on that this 'trivial inconvenience' was inhibiting countless posts and submissions.

For example, I've told you on IRC how I think the tribalism post is bullshit, but I have zero interest in writing up an email and sending it off and the email either never being seen or at best quoted.

The letters to the editor system is superior to moderated comments when it comes to optimizing for high signal to noise ratio

And you've based this on careful experimentation, of course.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 May 2013 09:25:42PM 0 points [-]

Trivial inconvenience is a feature not a bug. I mentioned it explicitly when arguing for this system to be adopted for the early days of the blog. I may be wrong, but I think it acts as a filter for those who can't be bothered to expend the small amount of effort in reply. This correlates with a less useful reply.

This is not an encyclopedia gwern.

Comment author: gwern 06 May 2013 09:44:11PM 8 points [-]

This is not an encyclopedia gwern.

Yet, it is a group blog. Why, that sounds like my other example...