Meta discussions can sometimes be very productive, like when they result in some beneficial change in site policy or an insight that makes subsequent discussions go a bit better (see this post for an example). I’m curious why orthonormal (or others) find meta discussions so annoying. Is it just that they have a tendency to be low quality and unproductive, or is it something inherent in being meta?
There are a lot of terrible discussions on this site, any time you can them lump together into a category that category becomes salient and acquires horns for people. “Meta” “Pua” “Gender issues” etc.
Meta discussions can sometimes be very productive, like when they result in some beneficial change in site policy or an insight that makes subsequent discussions go a bit better (see this post for an example). I’m curious why orthonormal (or others) find meta discussions so annoying. Is it just that they have a tendency to be low quality and unproductive, or is it something inherent in being meta?
There are a lot of terrible discussions on this site, any time you can them lump together into a category that category becomes salient and acquires horns for people. “Meta” “Pua” “Gender issues” etc.