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dxu comments on Communities: A single moderator is often superior to the wisdom of crowds - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: casebash 03 May 2015 09:21AM

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Comment author: dxu 03 May 2015 05:25:28PM 1 point [-]

At this point, LW is mostly self-policing.

By this I assume you're referring to the karma system, correct?

Comment author: Lumifer 03 May 2015 06:41:00PM 6 points [-]

I would say mostly social pressure, with downvoting into invisibility functioning as a heavy blunt object to persuade people not amenable to social pressure :-)

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 03 May 2015 07:41:15PM 5 points [-]

I agree.

And there's also social inertia, where people who aren't interested in an LWish sort of community aren't likely to post.