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Why do you believe that separate sections will increase the amount of content that's posted?
He just gave you a reason.
If you organize content, you would get rid of that sort of things. Imagine going on reddit, to math subreddit, and commenting on some theorem "yeah, but it's better to develop new political system than solving these equations". It's just bizarre, and for a reason: not everyone on this world should be solving the same problem.
I actually appreciated ChristianKl's question, I didn't answer it as well as I could have
Because different sections could have different rules or norms on what kind of content is acceptable. Sections wouldn't necessarily increase the amount of content by themselves, but they would if they were well selected. Take for example an off-topic question section. Some conversation already occur - via special threads - but if there was a separate section, many more would happen.
What kind of offtopic discussion do you think would be good to happen that don't already happen in the open thread of stupid question threads?
The stupid questions threads only happen once every few weeks.
But I'd love to see separate areas for politics or social skills.
As far as a separate area for politics goes, we had a while a separate recurring thread for it. Now we have Omnilibrium. What's wrong with those solutions and why do you rather want a new section?
As far as social skills how about opening up a new recurring thread for it or specific threads on subaspects? Threads already seem quite successful in establishing different rules and norms.
I'm not a fan of Omnilibrium's UI, but I guess that's the lesser issue. The bigger issue is how often do people actually post there? How active is the community? I suspect it's not going to be very large because it's a separate site that people have to visit.
If that's the key problem we might add the Omnilibrium threads to "Recent on Rationality Blogs"