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I would be more in favour of pushing SSC to have up/downvotes than to linking its posts here. I find that although posts are high quality the comments are generally not, so this is a problem that definitely needs to be solved on its own. Moreover, I read both blogs and I like to have them as separate activities given that they have pretty different writing styles and mildly different subjects. I tend I to read SSC on my leisure time, while LessWrong is a gray area. I would certainly be against linking every single post here given that some of them would be decisively off topic.
This is true of every blog I've ever seen. Posts are high quality, because you wouldn't be reading the blog otherwise, but anyone can pop in to add their two cents. General discussion forums don't show this effect, because anyone can post at top level.
I've never seen a blog that supported downvotes or karma ratings. If such exist, do they get better comments?
Sorry, I intended to mean that the comments are dramatically worse than the posts. But then again this might be true of most blogs. However, it's not true of the blogs I wish and find useful to visit.
This a blog that supports up/downvotes with karma in which comments are not dramatically worse than the post, and sometimes even better.
By a blog I mean something where the posts are written by one person. LW is what I am calling a discussion forum: anyone (subject to a minimal karma requirement) can post at top level.
That doesn't look like a goer given Scott's response that I quoted.
Noting that it may be best to exclude some posts as off topic.
It would seem I'm not the norm. I have been going there for just over one year. But I find it hard to believe people would be generally against any form of organising the comments by quality. It would be nice to know which of the 400 comments is worth reading. Do people simply read all of them? Do they post without reading any? I think I have been here, and mostly only here, for so long that other systems do not make sense to me.