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Rhwawn comments on Preventing discussion from being watered down by an "endless September" user influx. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Rhwawn 03 September 2012 12:36:58AM 2 points [-]

Second: Terms of surrender. When conditions X, Y and Z are met, LessWrong will fold or reboot.

That's an excellent idea, but I can't think of any clear metric of success or failure, short of really unlikely ones like 'during the annual poll, LWers majority vote for astrology'.