I’ll add one more gear here: I think you can improve on how much you’re satisfying all three tradeoffs at once – writing succinctly and clearly and distilling complex things into simpler ones are skills. But, those things take time (both to get better at the skill, and to apply the skill).
LessWrong certainly could do better than we currently have, but we’ve spent 100s of hours on things like
make the new user guide, and link new users to it
make the rate limits link people to pages that explain more about why you’re rate limited
explain why the moderation norms are what they are
etc. We could put more even more effort into it, but, well, there’s also a lot of other stuff to do.
I’ll add one more gear here: I think you can improve on how much you’re satisfying all three tradeoffs at once – writing succinctly and clearly and distilling complex things into simpler ones are skills. But, those things take time (both to get better at the skill, and to apply the skill).
LessWrong certainly could do better than we currently have, but we’ve spent 100s of hours on things like
make the new user guide, and link new users to it
make the rate limits link people to pages that explain more about why you’re rate limited
explain why the moderation norms are what they are
etc. We could put more even more effort into it, but, well, there’s also a lot of other stuff to do.