It would be interesting to have old-time SL4ers write an essay on lessons learned with running SL4 and what LessWrong does better or worse than it. Trivial inconvenience was more of an OB problem, I think; lack of moderation or links, and repetition, were bigger problems for me.
It’d also be a good idea to compile a categorized ‘best of SL4’ list of emails; for me, the worst part of SL4 was how repetitive a lot of it was (and how incredibly frustrating John Clark was with his obtuse misunderstandings of basic CS), which such a list would cut through. (As cousin_it mentions, before OB started, there was a lot of good discussion on SL4.) I might do this at some point if I ever finish a similar project of mine, reading through the archives of the Neon Genesis Evangelion ML—no promises though.
and how incredibly frustrating [name withheld to protect the guilty] was with his obtuse misunderstandings of basic CS
We have that here, too. (It’s probably less frequent here.) Sometimes the misunderstandings do not get downvoted or pointed out, sometimes they do, but the negative scores and replies do not prevent the person from continuing to go on copiously and with confidence about the subject he misunderstands.
Well, inasmuch as we have that same person here, we have the same problem. (Downvoted heavily too; I haven’t read the comments—about some inane looking problem about clock faces and the real number line—but given his past history I’m not inclined to be charitable.)
It would be interesting to have old-time SL4ers write an essay on lessons learned with running SL4 and what LessWrong does better or worse than it. Trivial inconvenience was more of an OB problem, I think; lack of moderation or links, and repetition, were bigger problems for me.
It’d also be a good idea to compile a categorized ‘best of SL4’ list of emails; for me, the worst part of SL4 was how repetitive a lot of it was (and how incredibly frustrating John Clark was with his obtuse misunderstandings of basic CS), which such a list would cut through. (As cousin_it mentions, before OB started, there was a lot of good discussion on SL4.) I might do this at some point if I ever finish a similar project of mine, reading through the archives of the Neon Genesis Evangelion ML—no promises though.
We have that here, too. (It’s probably less frequent here.) Sometimes the misunderstandings do not get downvoted or pointed out, sometimes they do, but the negative scores and replies do not prevent the person from continuing to go on copiously and with confidence about the subject he misunderstands.
Well, inasmuch as we have that same person here, we have the same problem. (Downvoted heavily too; I haven’t read the comments—about some inane looking problem about clock faces and the real number line—but given his past history I’m not inclined to be charitable.)
He’s not the only one although he might have been the latest one on the subject of CS.