Fallout from Razib banning or driving away quality commenters has reached even here.
Don't multiply your anecdotes, since your source is just gwern getting banned for a while.
It is easy to speak like this since it appeals to the anti-authoritarian impulse of the average LW reader but I invite you to inspect the uninformed drivel one can read in the comment sections on some other quality blogs dealing with similar topics.
I would argue based on comparison to other such blogs that the occasional mistakes are worth it to maintain a good signal to noise ratio. I am not alone in this assessment.
Don't multiply your anecdotes, since your source is just gwern getting banned for a while.
Excuse me? No it isn't. You are mind reading, and incorrectly. (Discussions at that time brought attention to other who didn't wish to bother with Razib.)
but I invite you to inspect the uninformed drivel one can read in the comment sections on some other quality blogs dealing with similar topics.
No. I don't want to compare to a known inferior solution and the endorsement being evaluated was that they were worth reading, not that elsewhere on the web is worse. T...
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, even in Discussion, it goes here.