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Kaj_Sotala comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread Round 4 - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: lukeprog 27 August 2012 12:04AM

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Comment author: William_Quixote 31 August 2012 09:10:25PM 1 point [-]

Question on posting norms: What is the community standard for opening a discussion thread about an issue discussed in the sequences? Are there strong norms regarding minimum / maximum length? Is formalism required, or frowned on, or just optional? Thanks

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 02 September 2012 06:56:30AM 1 point [-]

The general rule seems to be "if your post is interesting and well-written enough, it's fine"; hard to say anything more specific than that. No strong norms about length (even quite short posts have been heavily upvoted), and formalism is optional, but a post that's heavy on math or formal logic will probably get less readers.