At present, 150 of the 270 comments are children of Bakkot’s comment, arguing about infanticide. It seems obvious to me that we ought to seriously discourage promoting discussion on ideas in introduction threads, and instead point people to open threads / a primer on writing discussion posts.
Another possible solution is to have new introduction treads on a more regular basis. Say, monthly, like quotes threads, or as they fill up, like MoR threads.
This may be the better solution, as many discussions that newbies may be interested in having are things that would get voted down if they were discussion posts, but not as someone’s first LW discussion.
Another possible solution is to have new introduction treads on a more regular basis. Say, monthly, like quotes threads, or as they fill up, like MoR threads.
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Heh. Whoa. How’d you call something like this. A meta-rhyme or something?
This may be the better solution, as many discussions that newbies may be interested in having are things that would get voted down if they were discussion posts, but not as someone’s first LW discussion.