ChristianKl comments on LessWrong 2.0 - Less Wrong

89 Post author: Vaniver 09 December 2015 06:59PM

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Comment author: hg00 11 December 2015 11:48:30AM -1 points [-]

Seems to me that most people aren't aware of the people making fun of the community.

One thing that can happen is that there will be an anti-community that springs up around making fun of the original community, and then a journalist will write a story about the community that the anti-community will discover and leave negative comments on (or the journalist will discover the anti-community and write a story on its existence--remember that journalists are strongly incentivized to drive pageviews).

Comment author: ChristianKl 11 December 2015 10:16:33PM 2 points [-]

or the journalist will discover the anti-community and write a story on its existence

LW is not popular for a story about the reddit community making fun of LW to be a story that's interesting to the general public. The existance of someone critizing LW isn't a good story.