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NancyLebovitz comments on Stupid Questions (10/27/2014) - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: drethelin 27 October 2014 09:27PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 29 October 2014 01:07:50PM 11 points [-]

The reason for calling it stupid questions is to reassure people that they won't lose reputation or be insulted for asking questions that might be obvious to other people.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 29 October 2014 01:37:18PM 2 points [-]

OK. I understand that. Makes sense. The simple/quick questions presumably go to the open thread. But the approach still reduced the number of readers of these questions.

Comment author: drethelin 29 October 2014 05:27:46PM 3 points [-]

Maybe, but previous iterations of this thread have gotten hundreds of comments so I don't think it's a big deal.