Nice link, the rationalist community should consider moving to Kazakhstan! ;)
I don’t think this kind of comparison is important, because RW and LW are different types of websites. RationalWiki advertises itself as a resource for debunking pseudoscience, but I think that the numbers on that graph are mostly driven by their active involvement in hot topics of various culture wars: they have lots of articles on Trump, GamerGate, feminism, et cetera. On the other hand, Less Wrong actively tries to avoid all this, and tries to keep focus on mostly nerdy topics. (Also, the most popular LW writers have started their own blogs.)
So we basically have political clickbait competing for popularity with a nerdy walled garden, and if at the end of the day their numbers are similar… I think this is a pretty damning result for RationalWiki.
Nice link, the rationalist community should consider moving to Kazakhstan! ;)
I don’t think this kind of comparison is important, because RW and LW are different types of websites. RationalWiki advertises itself as a resource for debunking pseudoscience, but I think that the numbers on that graph are mostly driven by their active involvement in hot topics of various culture wars: they have lots of articles on Trump, GamerGate, feminism, et cetera. On the other hand, Less Wrong actively tries to avoid all this, and tries to keep focus on mostly nerdy topics. (Also, the most popular LW writers have started their own blogs.)
So we basically have political clickbait competing for popularity with a nerdy walled garden, and if at the end of the day their numbers are similar… I think this is a pretty damning result for RationalWiki.