Thank you for posting this. I agree that LW is a potentially valuable site, and I’m very angry that one person has been able to nearly wreck it.
MarsColony_in10years, thank you for working on a venue. I recommend text for easier reference rather than a phone call system, though both text and voice might be a good idea if people want voice for hashing out ideas.
Vaniver, thank you for working on this and posting about it. I didn’t know progress was happening at all.
I agree with Dagon and the others who said this that if it is going to take a significant amount of time to fix what needs to be fixed, it would be better to disable downvoting completely, at least temporarily, if that can be done easily. Of course it would be better if people didn’t care so much about karma. But that is not a thing which is easily changed, and we can see from this post that people really do quit for that reason.
Thank you for posting this. I agree that LW is a potentially valuable site, and I’m very angry that one person has been able to nearly wreck it.
MarsColony_in10years, thank you for working on a venue. I recommend text for easier reference rather than a phone call system, though both text and voice might be a good idea if people want voice for hashing out ideas.
Vaniver, thank you for working on this and posting about it. I didn’t know progress was happening at all.
I agree with Dagon and the others who said this that if it is going to take a significant amount of time to fix what needs to be fixed, it would be better to disable downvoting completely, at least temporarily, if that can be done easily. Of course it would be better if people didn’t care so much about karma. But that is not a thing which is easily changed, and we can see from this post that people really do quit for that reason.