shminux comments on Handshakes, Hi, and What's New: What's Going On With Small Talk? - LessWrong

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Comment author: shminux 03 January 2014 05:40:14PM -1 points [-]

It's not so much the number of parties, as smalltalk is OK in general chat, it's the off-topic noise that is discouraged, because of wasted time/attention, as you said, and possibly disrupted on-topic discussions.