Yeah, and I’m much sadder that Yvain doesn’t post to LW as much as he used to. I’d love to hear from him about why. (At least I’d love it if he’d post links or crosspost.)
Yvain doesn’t post to LW because he finds it too stressful. Partly this the stress of the watching the number after posting, but mainly the uncertainty ahead of time about whether his posts are good enough or appropriate.
Added: I was probably thinking of this comment, but it doesn’t mention karma.
That seems analogous to the reasons EY stopped posting on LW, so maybe we can form a hypothesis about things that drive highly visible posts away from LW?
Writing a good article is a lot of work. When you write it for LW, you risk that (a) at the end your hard work will get downvoted, or (b) the thread will be off-topic or otherwise bad and you will have no control over it.
A solution is to post your articles somewhere else, and only submit a link with a short summary on LW. The disadvantage of this solution is that the debate is now split in two places: your blog and LW.
Yeah, and I’m much sadder that Yvain doesn’t post to LW as much as he used to. I’d love to hear from him about why. (At least I’d love it if he’d post links or crosspost.)
Yvain doesn’t post to LW because he finds it too stressful. Partly this the stress of the watching the number after posting, but mainly the uncertainty ahead of time about whether his posts are good enough or appropriate.
Added: I was probably thinking of this comment, but it doesn’t mention karma.
That seems analogous to the reasons EY stopped posting on LW, so maybe we can form a hypothesis about things that drive highly visible posts away from LW?
Writing a good article is a lot of work. When you write it for LW, you risk that (a) at the end your hard work will get downvoted, or (b) the thread will be off-topic or otherwise bad and you will have no control over it.
A solution is to post your articles somewhere else, and only submit a link with a short summary on LW. The disadvantage of this solution is that the debate is now split in two places: your blog and LW.
It sounds different to me. I thought Eliezer didn’t like the comments.
Why does it matter where he writes?