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18 Post author: Will_Newsome 19 May 2011 10:23AM

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 19 May 2011 11:08:38AM 15 points [-]

There are way to many amazing posts with very little karma and mediocre posts with large amounts of karma.

Not enough productive projects related to the site, like site improvements and art. The few that do show up get to little attention and karma.

To much discussion about things like meetups and growing the community and converting people. Those things are important but they dosn't belong on LW and should probably have their own site.

There is a category of religiously inspired posts that creep me out and set of cult alarms. It contains that post about staring from Scientology and that Transcendental meditation stuff that while I found it interesting and perhaps useful doesn't seem to belong on LW and now recently these Mormon posts abut growing organizations. shudder

Comment author: badger 19 May 2011 05:00:41PM 4 points [-]

I think meetups and discussions about community belong on LW, but occasionally these seem to presume "we've figured all these things out, now we just have to spread them". Even the usage of "we" can be dangerously setting LW readers apart from others. If there is an overarching goal to a LW-based community, it would be better framed as how to be a capable and informative group that others would be interested in than how to attract people per se.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 19 May 2011 07:32:38PM 0 points [-]

Yea... Still, there's WAY to much of it relative actual content.