“Hmm, will think about it more. I do feel like it’s important to disincentivise the meta section of the site”—Well maybe it was better when meta was in the menu then? It was discoverable, but empirically we could see that most of the discussion was occurring on the main page nonetheless.
In any circumstance, perhaps we should only be attempting to discourage meta discussion if the amount of meta-discussion starts to become a problem? The current amount of meta discussion seems completely reasonable for a relatively new site where so much is still yet to be determined.
I also think during open beta it might be better to make the meta section more accessible (so people can report bugs and discuss the evolution of the site), and if it feels like we’re getting much discussion there, we have a fairly crisp moment in time (switch to lesswrong.com) where it makes sense to say “okay, now that we’re done with the beta we’re moving back to meta being more disincentivized.”
“Hmm, will think about it more. I do feel like it’s important to disincentivise the meta section of the site”—Well maybe it was better when meta was in the menu then? It was discoverable, but empirically we could see that most of the discussion was occurring on the main page nonetheless.
In any circumstance, perhaps we should only be attempting to discourage meta discussion if the amount of meta-discussion starts to become a problem? The current amount of meta discussion seems completely reasonable for a relatively new site where so much is still yet to be determined.
I also think during open beta it might be better to make the meta section more accessible (so people can report bugs and discuss the evolution of the site), and if it feels like we’re getting much discussion there, we have a fairly crisp moment in time (switch to lesswrong.com) where it makes sense to say “okay, now that we’re done with the beta we’re moving back to meta being more disincentivized.”