The LW Women series had a tendency to rapidly devolve into a fight between the worst elements of feminism and masculinism. Also, the whole "Post inflammatory, frequently misandrist, things and demand non-judgment from the community" thing was a recipe guaranteed to fail.
It was interesting, to be certain, but it also gutted any respect I had for the karma system, which was used primarily as a weapon against ideological enemies. The majority of karma points I have came from that debacle, so I don't say that as somebody bitter about being downvoted - rather, I watched my participation in an inane and pointless debate "reward" me far in excess of anything meaningful I had attempted to contribute before.
The whole "LW Women" was simply a project to claim LW as another territory for a specific tribe. It used dishonest methods of argumentation, and as soon as it failed the author was no longer interested in rationalist community -- which makes me suspect they were never interested in the community in the first place, other than as another place to conquer for their tribe.
I consider it one of two historical attempts where another tribe tried to conquer Less Wrong for them; the other one was the mass downvoting campaign by Eugine Nier. In both cases,...
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