"Above-average" is really not a very high bar to clear, and any discussion about which nothing more positive could be said than "it's above average relative to the general population baseline" would be a sad thing indeed to see on LW.
It was clear in the context that I meant "however high above average that you're willing to imagine". I was describing a lower bound on the quality (i.e. I'm not expecting it to go to average and below), not an upper bound. Why even treat it as a comment on the upper bound?
That isn't why I (or many people, I'd guess) signed up here. I don't mean that there's anything wrong with having conversations for those purposes; I do it too. But that isn't what LW is for, and I hope it will stay that way.
That's true. But I was referring to real life, because that's where most such conversations take place.
For example, what would be inappropriately off topic to post to LessWrong discussion about?
I couldn't find an answer in the FAQ. (Perhaps it'd be worth adding one.) The closest I could find was this:
However "rationality" can be interpreted broadly enough that rational discussion of anything would count, and my experience reading LW is compatible with this interpretation being applied by posters. Indeed my experience seems to suggest that practically everything is on topic; political discussion of certain sorts is frowned upon, but not due to being off topic. People often post about things far removed from the topics of interest. And some of these topics are very broad: it seems that a lot of material about self-improvement is acceptable, for instance.