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ModusPonies comments on A My Little Pony fanfic allegedly but not mainly about immortality - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: PhilGoetz 10 September 2012 01:02AM

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Comment author: ModusPonies 10 September 2012 03:01:15PM *  7 points [-]

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.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 10 September 2012 04:14:48PM *  5 points [-]

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.