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cousin_it comments on Why is reddit so negative? - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: katydee 09 February 2011 04:35AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 09 February 2011 11:01:53AM 3 points [-]

This is the default that happens with online communities. LW is the exception, not the rule. I can think of many possible reasons why we got lucky, but cannot test them.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 10 February 2011 02:07:25AM 5 points [-]

Are you sure that LW is that different? How much time is spent complaining about the lack of rationality in the general public, or discussing how common cognitive biases are? While nominally that helps us improve ourselves, a fair bit could be easily classified as negative.