I’m far away from writing as succinctly and well as you have here, and my ideas, in written form at least, are half-baked at best.
I joined the forum almost a year ago, in the hopes of either contributing to existing knowledge as best I could, challenge assumptions, create links and bonds between hills of knowledge, and hopefully also find people I could do this with consistently and more integrated.
However, I did not last long. After getting down-voted and receiving negative feedback, defensiveness kicked in. I came with the hopes of interaction, support, critical but open questions and people looking at what I was doing and wondering what it might become, or even asking me to cooperate with them in baking something. And so, I deactivated my account and left. I would characterize myself as sensitive, but the reason I left wasn’t solely because I got down-voted or negative feedback. It was because that seemed like the norm, a norm I experienced as fiercely anti-rational and against what I thought was the Spirit of Lesswrong, to err less and less, and actually help and support each other along the way. Possibly I didn’t stay in the gutters long enough either, for a passing Samaritan to welcome me, challenge me in a more gentle way and show some interest in why I’m here, which would probably also have kept me around.
It gave me affirmation in my struggles, too. Which I am grateful for.
My plan regarding Socrates, is neither to bind, kill nor isolate him, but to help others like myself build stronger structures. If one person shies away from writing because of all the negative feedback, let us co-write, and share the burden. If that is still too little, what about splitting it three-way, maybe even with different responsibilities? And maybe we have a good idea, but need the support and care of someone else to put it more succinctly in words. I want to do things like that, to contribute in stabilizing Athens. Maybe it helps, maybe not, but I do want to do something.
Even though it is still my inner motivation bringing me back, I’m not sure if I had, had I not got this kind of recognition. So, again, thank you for sharing and writing this, and I will do my little piece of trying to improve things too.
Hello Duncan_Sabien and Co,
I’m far away from writing as succinctly and well as you have here, and my ideas, in written form at least, are half-baked at best.
I joined the forum almost a year ago, in the hopes of either contributing to existing knowledge as best I could, challenge assumptions, create links and bonds between hills of knowledge, and hopefully also find people I could do this with consistently and more integrated.
However, I did not last long. After getting down-voted and receiving negative feedback, defensiveness kicked in. I came with the hopes of interaction, support, critical but open questions and people looking at what I was doing and wondering what it might become, or even asking me to cooperate with them in baking something. And so, I deactivated my account and left.
I would characterize myself as sensitive, but the reason I left wasn’t solely because I got down-voted or negative feedback. It was because that seemed like the norm, a norm I experienced as fiercely anti-rational and against what I thought was the Spirit of Lesswrong, to err less and less, and actually help and support each other along the way. Possibly I didn’t stay in the gutters long enough either, for a passing Samaritan to welcome me, challenge me in a more gentle way and show some interest in why I’m here, which would probably also have kept me around.
Reading this post by you, and also this one from amelia however, made me decide to re-activate my account again.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cwRCsCXei2J2CmTxG/lw-account-restricted-ok-for-me-but-not-sure-about-lesswrong
It gave me affirmation in my struggles, too. Which I am grateful for.
My plan regarding Socrates, is neither to bind, kill nor isolate him, but to help others like myself build stronger structures. If one person shies away from writing because of all the negative feedback, let us co-write, and share the burden.
If that is still too little, what about splitting it three-way, maybe even with different responsibilities? And maybe we have a good idea, but need the support and care of someone else to put it more succinctly in words. I want to do things like that, to contribute in stabilizing Athens. Maybe it helps, maybe not, but I do want to do something.
Even though it is still my inner motivation bringing me back, I’m not sure if I had, had I not got this kind of recognition. So, again, thank you for sharing and writing this, and I will do my little piece of trying to improve things too.
Kindly,
Caerulea-Lawrence