We want to allow "mediocre" people (some of which have an unrealized potential to be excellent) that want to learn from excellent people (I hope you agree).
To some extend yes, but we don't want eternal September either. There concern about the average IQ that reported in the LW census dropping over time.
Downvoting sends such a strong negative signal that it discourages even people that get much more upvotes than downvotes.
If we would have less downvotes in general then every single downvote would create a much stronger negative signal than it does at the moment.
Hi Christian, thx for commenting!
We want to allow "mediocre" people (some of which have an unrealized potential to be excellent) that want to learn from excellent people (I hope you agree).
To some extend yes, buat we don't want eternal September either. There concern about the average IQ that reported in the LW census dropping over time.
I'm not that concerned about average IQ. The crucial questions here are what is the purpose you see in LW and how you envision its future. If you want LW to be an elitist discussion forum for high-IQ people...
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
Thread started before the end of the last thread to ecourage Monday as first day.