Open thread, July 29-August 4, 2013

David_Gerard

Open thread, July 29-August 4, 2013 — LessWrong

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If, however, you're drunk

Yeah.

If you want to leave this board, but suspect you lack the willpower to do so

I feel like I have a duty before a community that I see massive potential in. To stand up for my values and denounce all the shit I hate here in an articulate, reasoned manner. But I'm very much not up to the task, and this makes me feel frustrated and miserable. And angry at my own impotence in the matter.

It'd be a big amount of work to even call out the most egregious shitty shit here on a regular basis, with some citations and explanations for why I did so. And it feels like people hardly even care.

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Vaniver13y50

To stand up for my values and denounce all the shit I hate here in an articulate, reasoned manner. But I'm very much not up to the task, and this makes me feel frustrated and miserable. And angry at my own impotence in the matter.

I think it's important to separate out preferences and predictions, and try to limit values to the first. If you want to do something about posts you think should be responded to civilly, send them to me and I'll take a look.

That said...

You gentlemen can probably guess as to which ones of you I mean by this.

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16Viliam_Bur13y

Then collect the worst examples and make an article of them. Preferably the ones that were upvoted (because if they were downvoted it means the community already disagrees with them). If the situation is so horrible, you should have an easy job. Just create a text file on your desktop, and anytimes something pisses you off, put the permalink there. Wait until you have enough material (please, don't make it a series of short articles), then process it. [...] If the things are really so horrible, is the explanation even necessary? Just give a dozen citations, which prove it wasn't a one-time event, and that's it. Preferably they should be citations of different people. If you want to make a drama, please put some work into it. Or use your rationality and outsource the job -- take 10 of your most ideologically close friends and ask them to spend one afternoon trying to find the most horrible upvoted comments, so that you can write a critical article.

1Oscar_Cunningham13y

Can you just write a single big manifesto of why LessWrong is shit, and then link to it all the time?

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