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A relatively new user here, my problem is that I have a threshold to posting even in forums that don't have any kind of minimum requirements, like some subreddits on reddit. On LW this threshold is obviously higher and the only place I feel comfortable posting here are those open threads. According to this page there are about 2500 articles on LW and I haven't even read everything in the sequences, I just don't feel there is anything I can say that hasn't been said already.
I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing though, if you're gonna loosen those requirements the quality is probably going to drop because the kind of posts that are "quality" here aren't the first thing in people's minds when they are free to decide what they wanna post.
If you'd like to post about a topic but you aren't sure whether it's been covered, you could ask about it in an Open Thread.
I will try it when the time comes, thanks!
If it's just general philosophical or other kinds of abstract arguments, there probably isn't. If it's about new research developments or new ways of presenting existing content, it very well could be.
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/IRC might also be able to give you immediate feedback from Sequences Black Belts on whether something has already been done to death.
Often something which is technically covered by an old post as a special case is still worth looking at specifically or from a different perspective or framework.