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It's possible, but I suspect that the proportion of people who're already interested in refining human rationality, encounter the site, and are turned away by the predominant media interests, is extremely low. The degree to which those elements pervade the site is very small compared to the prevalence of the elements that are its actual purpose.
Upvoted and agree. I don't really have anything more to add.
I know the above post only had one downvote, but just to check: Didn't we already have a discussion on how signalling agreement with things is a normal part of healthy human interaction and cooperation, and that we don't really want to suppress it for some mechanical standard of "high content" or "signal/noise"?
An interesting point. I would like it if LW comments/ posts had a way to "agree" or "disagree" with them separate from Karma. The posts show how many people had a agreed/disagreed with the post and possibly who had done so. This would provide an outlet for the desire to express agreement or disagreement without being too cluttering. I experience this desire a lot, but usually hold back for fear of making clutter.