I notice a version of this comment has +8 karma on /r/rational, but −2 here. Maybe it’s worth elaborating, or being nicer?
Differing discourse norms; in general, communities that don’t expend a constant amount of time-energy into maintaining better-than-average standards of discourse will, by default, regress to the mean. (We saw the same thing happen with LW1.0.)
So, I actually don’t think Less Wrong needs to be nicer! (But I agree that elaborating more was warranted.)
I notice a version of this comment has +8 karma on /r/rational, but −2 here. Maybe it’s worth elaborating, or being nicer?
Differing discourse norms; in general, communities that don’t expend a constant amount of time-energy into maintaining better-than-average standards of discourse will, by default, regress to the mean. (We saw the same thing happen with LW1.0.)
So, I actually don’t think Less Wrong needs to be nicer! (But I agree that elaborating more was warranted.)