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I think that there needs to be somewhere to discuss politics related to Less Wrong, but somewhere away from the main site. Ideally somewhere hard to find so as to keep the quality high.
A kind of would-have-banned-store for political discussion...
"MAIN" "DISCUSSION" "QUARANTINE"
would be a good site layout.
And only visible to people who log in.
I agree.
Upvoted for the purpose of tolerating tolerance.
I think usernames would have to be anonymized, as well.
I've had the idea before that a group of LWers keen to start an inflammatory political argument could help keep LW cool by having the argument on an unrelated, pre-existing, general politics forum. They could link the argument on the Open Thread so the rest of us know it's happening.
Possible advantages & disadvantages:
We could easily use the LessWrong subreddit for that purpose, or create a LWPolitics subreddit.
Interesting idea. There doesn't seem to be much traffic there, I wonder if the mods would be open to it?
Rationalist Tumblr discusses politics and culture, but it is definitely not hard to find; the quality of discussion may be higher than the Tumblr average but probably not what you are looking for. On the plus side, most of us have different usernames there, so you can consider ideas apart from author until you re-learn everyone. Which happens pretty quickly, so not a big plus.
The Tumblr folks seem to mostly agree that Tumblr is not the optimal solution for this, but it has the advantage of currently existing.
The problem is that to contribute to that I would have to follow like 50 tumblrs and try to convince people to follow me as well