Dorikka comments on The best 15 words - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dorikka 03 October 2013 01:47:43PM *  12 points [-]

Belongs in Discussion IMO

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 06 October 2013 08:09:55AM 4 points [-]

Can you explain in 15 words what belongs to Main and what to Discussion? :D

Comment author: Ben_LandauTaylor 09 October 2013 03:53:35PM 2 points [-]

Main: topics that are interesting to most LW readers, AND are notably worth reading

Discussion: topics that are interesting to most LW readers, OR are notably worth reading for some readers

Open Thread: everything else

Comment author: Desrtopa 09 October 2013 04:24:57PM 1 point [-]

It's not clear to me what category this post should fall under on that basis, but I'd suggest the heuristic that anything posted to Main which retains a positive score after a few days might as well stay there.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 10 October 2013 06:20:11AM 0 points [-]

Many posts with positive scores are ejected from main.

Comment author: apophenia 03 October 2013 08:21:40PM 4 points [-]

Could you break down that intuition? Why?

If you think that because it's short, I STRONGLY disagree--value added is not proportional to length.

If you think that because it's an exercise, I disagree, although that's a stronger case. We happen to be doing original research in exercise form, and evidence shows exercises work better than academic articles.

If you think that for some other reason, or something like the above but not quite, I'd love to hear it!

Comment author: Dorikka 05 October 2013 03:50:20AM 3 points [-]

Insufficient value add by the OP. Given that, insufficient expected value add in the comments. (I think that the Textbooks List and Procedural Knowledge Gaps lists belong in Main because the collection of knowledge by commenters is valuable enough, even though the OP is not a huge value add on its own. )

Comment author: [deleted] 04 October 2013 03:45:04AM 1 point [-]

Why? Rationality Quotes threads are in Main too (though I suspect they are here more because of tradition than anything else).

Comment author: Dorikka 05 October 2013 03:54:32AM 0 points [-]

You can read my reply here for a rough sketch of my viewpoint. To be honest, I'm not very interested in this bit of meta and am likely tapping out.

Comment author: RobbBB 03 October 2013 11:31:10PM *  1 point [-]

I can understand that intuition, but I'd like to see people err more on the side of putting slightly subpar things on Main, as opposed to erring on the side of putting slightly superpar things on Discussion. Main is underused, and I think metadiscussion about where to categorize things has become a bit too common.