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Maybe you guys should have a monthly brony thread :(
Why are the people up-voting this even reading this post?
IMO, LW's obsession with keeping even Discussion pristine has gotten a little nutty.
1) To explain why I downvoted this thread. I like MLP and I like Less Wrong, but I don't want MLP discussion to become a significant fraction of what goes on here. I remember two other MLP fanfic threads posted in the last day or two, one of them by you. That's more than I want to see.
2) A monthly thread is actually a good idea, and I now intend to make one in October. It would give us a place to talk about these things while keeping it from flooding the discussion page. A similar approach works pretty well for the HPMOR folks.
EDIT: After reading PhilGoetz's response, I no longer think a monthly thread would be a good idea.
I disagree, for three reasons:
1) I'm not trying to ponify LessWrong. I post pony things here when they merit their own Discussion post on LessWrong. They are here as fully-qualified LessWrong discussion topics, not as pony ramblings. Otherwise, I'd rather see them in the fimfiction LessWrong group.
2) Creating a monthly pony thread would obligate people to put everything pony-related in that thread, even if it merited its own post. It would demote and degrade everything pony-related. It would ensure that nothing with the word "pony" ever reached Main.
3) It's rarely a good idea to ghettoize yourself.
HPMOR is a single story, so it makes sense for it to have its own post.
Let's at least wait and see whether the pony content increases.
I am interested in MLP fic, but I upvoted him out of sympathy. It's a good idea.
I actually think it'd make for MORE total MLP related content, and I want that.
Another possibility is to use the media thread