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Comment author: ChristianKl 10 February 2015 08:06:25PM 1 point [-]

if I post Yvain's best quotes every month, that gets me a lot of karma I don't really deserve.

It's not about posting quotes of third parties that Yvain posted in the quotes thread but choosing quotes from his other writing. Making specific choices about what of his long articles is quote worthy is a decision that adds value.

I don't think we really need to have the same thing in many places, instead of pointing to it many times;

Quoting writing often means to make a choice to select certain passages of writing over other passages. It's not just repeating the same thing.

I believe this has come up and the consensus (or, at least, my position) was that quotes by Scott should not be allowed in the Rationality Quotes thread.

This isn't directly the Rationality Quotes thread and as we are starting a new thread, it's worth to be clear about it's rules.

Comment author: Gondolinian 11 February 2015 12:23:40PM *  0 points [-]

Making specific choices about what of his long articles is quote worthy is a decision that adds value.

Perhaps we could have an irregular thread for doing just that and trying to find the best passages from LW and peripheral rationality sites?

ETA: Maybe we could also try a thread for summarizing long articles with or without direct quotes?

Comment author: ChristianKl 11 February 2015 12:27:27PM 0 points [-]

I did a while ago open such a thread and the amount of contribution it got was relatively low. I don't see a reason to have the thread separate from this thread.

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