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16 Post author: Douglas_Reay 09 September 2012 04:41AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 September 2012 10:19:09PM 10 points [-]

I'm unclear on what exactly I would tell you,

This comment actually gave me An Idea, so thank you!

Idea- In the Call for Responses post, there could be a Ask the Women thread, where people can submit questions. If you want a question answered, upvote it.

When the women write their responses, they can use the questions as prompts. A question that gets many upvotes will probably be written on by more women, thus getting more data. But if you want to respond to a more lower voted question, you can (or just say whatever you want to say)

I would say that the submitted questions will be assumed to be answered using Crocker's Rules, no exceptions. What we want is a more stream-of-consciousness, gut-level reaction . Not self-censored, want-to-be-polite-and-concise, filtered answers.

Comment author: Caspian 09 September 2012 03:44:22AM 7 points [-]

Some topics for the call for responses I would propose: 

Occasions when a man was creepy towards you at a social event.

Occasions when a woman was creepy towards you at a social event.

Occasions you met a new male friend at a social event, and how it wasn't creepy, and what was fun/interesting/good about it.

Occasions you met a new female friend at a social event, and how it wasn't creepy, and what was fun/interesting/good about it.

(I mean new friend in the sense that you didn't know them, not that they were already a new friend before the event)

"This has never happened to me" would also be a useful response.

All of the above questions could be answered for either lesswrong-related events, or social events in general.

Comment author: dspeyer 11 September 2012 10:44:47PM 4 points [-]

Occasions (or general patterns) when someone tried too hard to not be creepy toward you and displeased you as a result.

(Some of the policies that get tossed around are pretty extreme, so I'd be interested in measuring the overcompensation risk.)