NOTE: My brain reacted way to much to the part about crockers rules, so I suspect I might be biased in a sadistic direction, but can't figure out how to compensate for it so I'll just leave that to you.
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... Oooh, I remember these posts, as some of my absolute favourites as examples for everyone else (even possibly Eliezer himself) on how to write exiting, easy to understand posts!
... Well drat. But I guess this provides some evidence as well. Or maybe there was some kind of confused multi-directional cascade of attempted bias compensation in my brain that I didn't notice.
Edit: just now my brain made an association between the feeling inspired by your posts and the excitement I get when I'm about to enter a cage fight with some new exiting basilisk. This association could not be reproduced under controlled conditions.
At this point this post looks like nothing more than a verbose event log of my brain, rather than a comment on something.
Futher edit: After reading the rest of the thread I conclude I just have weird taste and my opinion probably shouldn't count.
I've written quite a lot here since Less Wrong started up, but I've started to suspect that my writing style is holding me back. Most recently, I wrote two sequences that seemed to garner widespread agreement on content/significance/originality but didn't really seem to excite anyone, which is a pretty clear signal that my style has been hobbling my ideas. So, as I'd promised to do (albeit a few weeks later than I'd expected), I'm trying to improve myself as a writer, and I need your help.
I'm declaring Crocker's Rules on the subject, and I'd like help with both diagnosis and treatment. Let me know, as precisely as you can, what's problematic in my writing, or what you think the root causes might be, or what you think might help me to fix my issues. I'll list what I've thought of so far in a comment below (so that you can make your own suggestions without anchoring issues).
Links to my recent major posts:
Consequentialism Need Not Be Nearsighted
Qualia sequence: Part I, Part II, Part III
And now an odd counterexample: I wrote this post quickly for Discussion, without thinking too much or editing at all, and then it got promoted and was received enthusiastically. That may just be the subject matter, or it may signify that the time I spend editing posts makes them worse...