I was somewhat leery about putting this post on the front page, but eventually decided to since it had useful rationality content and there was not a clear guideline about NSFW content on LW (as there is about e.g. culture war stuff). I placed a content warning at the beginning to help people who might not want to read it avoid it. The title is something I’m unsure about changing: generally, I prefer to write titles that make it quite obvious if the article is about something people might want to avoid, but on the other hand I certainly don’t want to make LW’s frontpage something people feel uncomfortable browsing in public.
It occurs to me that by “crass” you might mean “number of swear words”, in which case I can easily fix it if people object by editing the LW version of any post to be swear-word-free.
I think the swear words made a reasonably large difference for me, and editing them out would have improved my reading experience a good bit.
(To be specific: “pussy” is clearly a swear word for me, “sex” is not. This line also irked me: “”I say grow that shit like a jungle, give ’em something strong to hold onto, let it fly in the open wind”)
Also, I note that it’s a problem (in terms of ability to opt out/my occasional attempts to apply rationality to sex not ruining everyone’s ability to browse LW in public) that even if I put it on my personal LW blog the *comments* would still appear in the recent comments feed. (Perhaps I should direct the people on Thing of Things who want to discuss their shower habits over here. :) )
For the feature list we could have the option to have comments on some posts not appear in recent comments, and/or allow people making comments the option to have their comment not appear on the recent comments page. I remember someone (I think it was you but I’m not 100%) noting that they raised their comment-threshold because comments would clutter up recent comments; if we could opt out of that we could give positive-feedback and other low-signal-but-worth-sending comments while making the recent comments feed better.
I think in the long run comments on personal posts shouldn’t show up on the frontpage, unless they hit a certain karma threshold, and authors should be able to prevent comments to be posted to the frontpage at all. For now the comments on the frontpage are one of the primary ways people discover posts that are posted to people’s personal blogs, so I think until we have better discoverability I would want to leave the default as is.
I’m also interested in people talking about this!
I was somewhat leery about putting this post on the front page, but eventually decided to since it had useful rationality content and there was not a clear guideline about NSFW content on LW (as there is about e.g. culture war stuff). I placed a content warning at the beginning to help people who might not want to read it avoid it. The title is something I’m unsure about changing: generally, I prefer to write titles that make it quite obvious if the article is about something people might want to avoid, but on the other hand I certainly don’t want to make LW’s frontpage something people feel uncomfortable browsing in public.
It occurs to me that by “crass” you might mean “number of swear words”, in which case I can easily fix it if people object by editing the LW version of any post to be swear-word-free.
I think the swear words made a reasonably large difference for me, and editing them out would have improved my reading experience a good bit.
(To be specific: “pussy” is clearly a swear word for me, “sex” is not. This line also irked me: “”I say grow that shit like a jungle, give ’em something strong to hold onto, let it fly in the open wind”)
Also, I note that it’s a problem (in terms of ability to opt out/my occasional attempts to apply rationality to sex not ruining everyone’s ability to browse LW in public) that even if I put it on my personal LW blog the *comments* would still appear in the recent comments feed. (Perhaps I should direct the people on Thing of Things who want to discuss their shower habits over here. :) )
For the feature list we could have the option to have comments on some posts not appear in recent comments, and/or allow people making comments the option to have their comment not appear on the recent comments page. I remember someone (I think it was you but I’m not 100%) noting that they raised their comment-threshold because comments would clutter up recent comments; if we could opt out of that we could give positive-feedback and other low-signal-but-worth-sending comments while making the recent comments feed better.
I strongly support this.
I think in the long run comments on personal posts shouldn’t show up on the frontpage, unless they hit a certain karma threshold, and authors should be able to prevent comments to be posted to the frontpage at all. For now the comments on the frontpage are one of the primary ways people discover posts that are posted to people’s personal blogs, so I think until we have better discoverability I would want to leave the default as is.