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So, has there been an influx of new participants into LW who only want to argue politics? I haven't noticed any.
It's also worth pointing out that we mostly debate political philosophy and not politics. Politics debates look like "Should Obama just ignore Congress and ram through whatever regulations he can?" or "Is Ted Cruz the greatest guy ever?" or "Shall we just tell the Greeks to go jump into the Aegean sea?" and we do NOT have them.
I'm not sure if it says more about me or the context I'm used to seeing here at Less Wrong, but when I read, "Shall we just tell the Greeks to go jump into the Aegean sea?" I thought "Iliad" before "ongoing economic crisis." If that order ever flips, we may have gotten too much into current events and lost our endearing weirdness and classicism.
:-D Yep. That's a good thing.
There seems to be a member who mainly came to LW to argue "pragmatarianism" who's karma is as the time of this writing negative.
I think this member is mostly in the business of marketing his blog and isn't interested in LW otherwise.
I agree that this isn't happening to LW. (To avoid repetition, I talk about a bit more about motivation in this comment)