I dunno man. Like, the statement that a lot of the highest quality discussion takes place on closed mailing lists is suspect to me. I’ve been on a few closed mailing lists, and they tend to be wastelands, because all the talking is taking place on reddit.
The most convenient/casual platform ‘wins’, in terms of getting most user discussion.
This is kind of why I want to achieve a “best of both worlds” effect—this creates something like a closed discussion group inside a convenient/casual Reddit, and good discussion can be pulled from the latter into the former.
I feel like you are kind of solving the wrong problem? Like, just make a lesswrong slack, put a link to it in a discussion post and at the top of the main page, and see if it becomes the place where all the talk happens.
I dunno man. Like, the statement that a lot of the highest quality discussion takes place on closed mailing lists is suspect to me. I’ve been on a few closed mailing lists, and they tend to be wastelands, because all the talking is taking place on reddit.
The most convenient/casual platform ‘wins’, in terms of getting most user discussion.
This is kind of why I want to achieve a “best of both worlds” effect—this creates something like a closed discussion group inside a convenient/casual Reddit, and good discussion can be pulled from the latter into the former.
I feel like you are kind of solving the wrong problem? Like, just make a lesswrong slack, put a link to it in a discussion post and at the top of the main page, and see if it becomes the place where all the talk happens.