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A little bit of 4chan couldn't hurt LessWrong.
Now with that odd beginning behind, I want to explain what I mean. I enjoy this site a LOT, really A LOT, however it lacks a little bit in variety. When I was younger i liked 4chan because it had its own "culture": jokes, way of speaking etc. and when you got familiar with it, you could read about you were interested in manga, anime, video games within the culture you knew. Often when I search opinion about something, I would like an opinion from "culture" of LessWrong. Accuracy of opinions, facts etc, would be...
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Could we get some of that value by making an occasional, uhm, Open Thread focused on a specific topic? For the topics you would want to get a subsection on; one topic at a time.
We need some coordination mechanism to prevent this from being annoying, but maybe a rule of thumb "don't make an Open Thread for the same topic more often than once in a month" could be a good start.
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you can get more of this from twitter btw
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I think LessWrong used to be more like this. It certainly had some upsides to "have culture". There are also downsides. I certainly miss it but not sure whether I'd hit a button to change it.
For sure, however categorization and archiving is non-existent on twitter