The central point here seems strong and important. One can, as Scott notes, take it too far, but mostly yes one should look where there are very interesting things even if the hit rate is not high, and it’s important to note that. Given the karma numbers involved and some comments sometimes being included I’d want assurance that we wouldn’t include any of that with regard to particular individuals.
That comment section, though, I believe has done major harm and could keep doing more even in its current state, so I still worry about bringing more focus on this copy of the post (as opposed to the SSC copy). Also, I worry about this giving too much of a free pass to what it calls “outrage culture”—there’s an implicit “yeah, it’s ok to go all essentialist and destroy someone for one statement that breaks your outrage mob’s rules, I can live with that and please don’t do it to me here, but let’s not extend that to things that are merely stupid or wrong.” I don’t think you can do that, it doesn’t work that way. Could be fixed with an edit if Scott wanted it fixed.
Yeah, I don’t expect that I would include the comments on this post in any books, they don’t really fit their goal and feel too inside-basebally/non-timeless to me to make sense there.
The central point here seems strong and important. One can, as Scott notes, take it too far, but mostly yes one should look where there are very interesting things even if the hit rate is not high, and it’s important to note that. Given the karma numbers involved and some comments sometimes being included I’d want assurance that we wouldn’t include any of that with regard to particular individuals.
That comment section, though, I believe has done major harm and could keep doing more even in its current state, so I still worry about bringing more focus on this copy of the post (as opposed to the SSC copy). Also, I worry about this giving too much of a free pass to what it calls “outrage culture”—there’s an implicit “yeah, it’s ok to go all essentialist and destroy someone for one statement that breaks your outrage mob’s rules, I can live with that and please don’t do it to me here, but let’s not extend that to things that are merely stupid or wrong.” I don’t think you can do that, it doesn’t work that way. Could be fixed with an edit if Scott wanted it fixed.
Yeah, I don’t expect that I would include the comments on this post in any books, they don’t really fit their goal and feel too inside-basebally/non-timeless to me to make sense there.