emr comments on Political topics attract participants inclined to use the norms of mainstream political debate, risking a tipping point to lower quality discussion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 26 March 2015 02:37:25PM *  7 points [-]

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.

Comment author: emr 27 March 2015 04:04:13PM *  1 point [-]

I agree that this isn't happening to LW. (To avoid repetition, I talk about a bit more about motivation in this comment)