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ChristianKl comments on Open Thread, Apr. 27 - May 3, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Viliam 27 April 2015 10:37:09AM *  3 points [-]

It is interesting to watch how different things I observe on internet interact with each other. Two recent discoveries:

1) Arthur Chu, known to readers of SSC as a person not exactly in favor of niceness, created a Kickstarted project called "Who is Arthur Chu?". Failed by collecting only 20% of the planned $50.000. (Which, if I understand the rules of Kickstarter correctly, means he will get nothing.)

Not sure if the proper reaction here is to laugh (something like: "you had a choice between niceness and winning, you rejected niceness, and now you have neither"), or to congratulate for empirically testing "how much money could I get from random people on internet if I just openly ask them to contribute to my glory". I mean, next time if he would ask people to donate mere $10.000, he could actually get it. Of course only if they do not forget him in the meantime.

2) Gamergate was recently a 3rd largest article on RationalWiki. Then it was split into multiple articles, so at this moment it is merely at positions 8 ("Gamergate") and 13 ("Timeline of Gamergate") in the longest article list. Unsurprisingly, the whole article is one person's playground. Specifically, it is a person recently kicked out for similar behavior from Wikipedia. It will be interesting to see how other people on RationalWiki will deal with this.

Comment author: ChristianKl 27 April 2015 02:04:08PM 5 points [-]

Specifically, it is a person recently kicked out for similar behavior from Wikipedia. It will be interesting to see how other people on RationalWiki will deal with this.

They welcome him because he writes at the usual RationalWiki quality standard?

Comment author: Viliam 27 April 2015 08:04:11PM 6 points [-]

More importantly, he is compatible with the party line. Articles about wrong targets would not be tolerated, regardless of quality. Try to use a "snarky point of view" on something politically correct and see what happens.