Raziel123 comments on Lesswrong, Effective Altruism Forum and Slate Star Codex: Harm Reduction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Raziel123 08 June 2015 07:26:44PM *  8 points [-]

mm.., I think and agregator from less wrong, SSC , EA forum and OB posts, would be great,only if all of the formers have an easy (visible) link to it. It could allow more traffic to flow between those gravity centers. it may be better than crossposting.

Comment author: Vaniver 09 June 2015 02:31:45AM *  6 points [-]

ESRogs just made this.

Pros of having it on Reddit:

  1. It's a clearly neutral place, with no history or baggage.
  2. It's a bit more cleanly set up for link posts.
  3. Instead of a potentially costly change to the LW codebase, it's already done.

Cons of having it on Reddit, instead of on LW (see this other comment of mine for suggestions on how that could be done):

  1. It requires a different account, and a new account for anyone who doesn't already use Reddit.
  2. It doesn't inherit the good parts of the history, like tying the Yvain of SSC links to the Yvain of Generalizing From One Example.
  3. It creates a new source of gravity, potentially diffusing things even more, rather than consolidating them. Instead of conversations in SSC comments and tumblr and Facebook and a LessWrong link post, we now might have conversations in SSC comments, tumblr, Facebook, a LessWrong link post, and Reddit.
Comment author: Raziel123 09 June 2015 03:12:34AM *  4 points [-]

I would be surprised if that subreddit get traction. I was thinking something more like Reaction Times(damn Scot and his FAQ), and having it in a visible place in all of the Rationality related sites. a coordinanted effort.

Well, the idea was not to comment in the agregator, that way it will be like a highway, it should take you to others sites with 2 clicks (3 max) . if that is not possible I'm not sure there will be any impact, besides making another gravity center.

Comment author: ESRogs 09 June 2015 02:56:04PM 1 point [-]

the idea was not to comment in the agregator

I'm thinking about whether to try to explicitly establish this as a norm of /r/RationalistDiaspora. Haven't made up my mind yet.

Comment author: Vaniver 09 June 2015 03:11:58PM *  5 points [-]

Comments in the aggregator makes much more sense to me--no trivial inconvenience to posting a comment, and people can read the comments to determine whether or not to follow the link, and it means every link has access to Reddit-quality commenting (karma, threads, etc.) regardless of how the source is set up.

It does make it harder for the content creator to see those comments.

Comment author: Raziel123 09 June 2015 05:54:10PM *  5 points [-]

but in that case the people will be even more diluted, why create another gravity center?, that´s the issue we are trying to solve, I'm mostly convinced that t would be better if the aggregator have no comments.

Edit: I guess the aggregator have more traffic than I thought, I'm just worried if there is only a one way flow from less wrong all the other sites..

Comment author: philh 09 June 2015 04:48:32PM *  1 point [-]

It might also make sense to have multiple parallel discussions with different norms, so that people who are turned off by one set of norms can still comment elsewhere. (This does run the risk of fragmentation.)

...though I'd suggest that if we're going to discuss the comment policy of the new place, we should do that in a meta thread at the new place.

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