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drethelin comments on Against Open Threads - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: ChristianKl 30 May 2014 06:09PM

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Comment author: drethelin 31 May 2014 05:07:38AM 4 points [-]

As several people have pointed out, the problem is high barrier to good posters, like Yvain. For various reasons either practical or emotional or whatever they don't post anymore. However, many of the quality Commenters, as opposed to "posters" hang on. Removing Open Threads won't do anything to get people to write interesting Posts, unless you think there are a lot of open thread comments that should be posts. It will just reduce opportunities for quality commenters to talk to each other.