Agreed. I’ve asked personally important questions on LW also. Most recently about whether I (and more generally, people similar to me, and also people in general) should save for the long term.
The way I see it is that even though it might be uncomfortable, you have so much more to gain than you do to lose. Because the margins are quite big, I’d feel bad if I didn’t do it. My hesitation is that it may be pestering the community a bit.
I think it’d be great if there was a section for these sorts of questions and conversations. Posting in a more heavily trafficked section like Discussion may bug people who aren’t interested. If there was a section for this, I sense that people would feel less hesitant to post. A more ‘intuitive’ reason for this belief of mine is because I think it’s hard for your brain to say “you’re not supposed to post this here, you’ll be bugging people” when there’s a clearly labeled section for that type of post.
This doesn’t make much sense, but I’ll try to brain dump. For more serious things, it’s bothersome that there’s a record of the post on the internet for anyone who Googles you to see. I know that you could just delete it after the conversation… but something in my System I feels hesitant to do that. Probably because I/my system has a really big belief that I should never want to hide anything ever. So I guess what I’m saying is that perhaps others have similar-ish feelings, and perhaps a feature that adds privacy to these sorts of posts would be useful. I don’t really have any good/more specific ideas though. But if anyone else wants conversation/feedback but doesn’t want to post publicly, always feel free to message me. I enjoy helping people, I enjoy the problem solving aspect, and it’s good practice for me.
Agreed. I’ve asked personally important questions on LW also. Most recently about whether I (and more generally, people similar to me, and also people in general) should save for the long term.
The way I see it is that even though it might be uncomfortable, you have so much more to gain than you do to lose. Because the margins are quite big, I’d feel bad if I didn’t do it. My hesitation is that it may be pestering the community a bit.
I think it’d be great if there was a section for these sorts of questions and conversations. Posting in a more heavily trafficked section like Discussion may bug people who aren’t interested. If there was a section for this, I sense that people would feel less hesitant to post. A more ‘intuitive’ reason for this belief of mine is because I think it’s hard for your brain to say “you’re not supposed to post this here, you’ll be bugging people” when there’s a clearly labeled section for that type of post.
This doesn’t make much sense, but I’ll try to brain dump. For more serious things, it’s bothersome that there’s a record of the post on the internet for anyone who Googles you to see. I know that you could just delete it after the conversation… but something in my System I feels hesitant to do that. Probably because I/my system has a really big belief that I should never want to hide anything ever. So I guess what I’m saying is that perhaps others have similar-ish feelings, and perhaps a feature that adds privacy to these sorts of posts would be useful. I don’t really have any good/more specific ideas though. But if anyone else wants conversation/feedback but doesn’t want to post publicly, always feel free to message me. I enjoy helping people, I enjoy the problem solving aspect, and it’s good practice for me.