I suggest we have a poll on how many people would like PUA-related discussion and how many would prefer not to.
You’re probably being downvoted because rationality is not about what’s a majority vote. You also missed the part where we want to be sensitive to non-majorities.
A vote could none the less be enlightening—it might, e.g., reveal that there’s a substantial minority of LW readers who really, really hate PUA discussion. Or that 80% of female LW readers don’t mind it at all. Or whatever.
It would be dumb to have a vote with the intention of simply doing whatever the majority prefers, but that’s not the only thing one can do with a poll. You might notice that AnlamK didn’t use the words “majority” or “vote”.
I suggest we have a poll on how many people would like PUA-related discussion and how many would prefer not to.
You’re probably being downvoted because rationality is not about what’s a majority vote. You also missed the part where we want to be sensitive to non-majorities.
A vote could none the less be enlightening—it might, e.g., reveal that there’s a substantial minority of LW readers who really, really hate PUA discussion. Or that 80% of female LW readers don’t mind it at all. Or whatever.
It would be dumb to have a vote with the intention of simply doing whatever the majority prefers, but that’s not the only thing one can do with a poll. You might notice that AnlamK didn’t use the words “majority” or “vote”.