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John_Maxwell_IV comments on A place for casual, non-karmic discussion for lesswrongers? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 08 November 2012 02:30:37AM 0 points [-]

I can't think of a way, but LW feels like much less of a popularity contest, and it has that problem.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 November 2012 03:05:32AM 0 points [-]

How would you feel about a market for better communicators on LW? Say, voluntary character limits (twice Twitter's? thrice?) and a Gunning Fog meter. Not sure how you'd establish successful compression, but if you could, more karma could be awarded for it than for a typical comment style.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 08 November 2012 06:32:33AM 2 points [-]

I don't think verbosity is a big problem on LW. People not making posts for fear of being downvoted, or just not investing the time necessary to create good discussion/top-level posts, seems much bigger.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 November 2012 06:34:09AM 0 points [-]

Accessibility is a problem, and verbosity is one of the causes.