Personally, I suspect the easiest way to discourage meta discussion about controlling what conversations people have is more or less the way you’re doing it: participate in the discussions you think are interesting and either ignore or challenge the ones you don’t.
The folks who think it’s important to control such things will not in general change their minds, but thus far they routinely seem willing to attribute such challenges to LW as a whole (rather than treat the individual objectors as individuals), which seems to achieve precisely the goal you want.
Also—hm. Wait. Were you asking ironically? Sorry.
Incidentally, I agree with you in principle, though I’m open to a “move large discussions somewhere other than the intro thread” modification if it can be made to work relatively seamlessly.
Ironic but serious too. The best kind of irony. (And if there wasn’t a hint of intended irony it’d be ironically self-defeating!)
Incidentally, I agree with you in principle, though I’m open to a “move large discussions somewhere other than the intro thread” modification if it can be made to work relatively seamlessly.
Sure we can.
Personally, I suspect the easiest way to discourage meta discussion about controlling what conversations people have is more or less the way you’re doing it: participate in the discussions you think are interesting and either ignore or challenge the ones you don’t.
The folks who think it’s important to control such things will not in general change their minds, but thus far they routinely seem willing to attribute such challenges to LW as a whole (rather than treat the individual objectors as individuals), which seems to achieve precisely the goal you want.
Also—hm. Wait. Were you asking ironically? Sorry.
Incidentally, I agree with you in principle, though I’m open to a “move large discussions somewhere other than the intro thread” modification if it can be made to work relatively seamlessly.
Ironic but serious too. The best kind of irony. (And if there wasn’t a hint of intended irony it’d be ironically self-defeating!)
Good idea.