I cross-post everything I write on Putanumonit to LW by default, which I understood to be the intention of “personal blogposts”. I didn’t write this for LW. If anyone on the mod team told me that this would be better as a link post or off LW entirely, not because it’s bad but because it’s not aligned with LW’s reputation, I’ll be happy to comply.
I could imagine casual readers quickly looking at this and assuming it’s related to the PUA community
With that said, my personal opinion is that LW shouldn’t cater to people who form opinions on things before reading them and we should discourage them from hanging out here.
For what it’s worth, I predict that this would have gotten more upvotes here at least with different language, though I realize this was not made primarily for LW.
my personal opinion is that LW shouldn’t cater to people who form opinions on things before reading them and we should discourage them from hanging out here.
I think this is a complicated issue. I could appreciate where it’s coming from and could definitely imagine things going too far in either direction. I imagine that both of us would agree it’s a complicated issue, and that there’s probably some line somewhere, though we may of course disagree on where specifically it is.
A literal-ish interpretation of your phrase there is difficult for me to interpret. I feel like I start with priors on things all the time. Like, if I know an article comes from The NYTimes vs. The Daily Stormer, that snippet of data itself would give me what seems like useful data. There’s a ton of stuff online I choose not to read because it seems to be from sources I can’t trust for reasons of source, or a quick read of headline.
I was thinking of people who write comments without reading the post, which pollutes the conversation. Or people who form broad opinions about a writer or a blog without reading. I deal with those people all day every day on Twitter and in the blog comments.
I didn’t mean people deciding what to read based on the title. Of course everyone does that! Someone seeing ‘Go F*** Someone’ may assume that the post will be somewhat vulgar, and will talk about sex. Both things are true. People not interested in vulgar writing about sex shouldn’t read it. If I titled it ‘A Consideration of Narcissism as it Affects the Formation of Long Term Bonds’ that would actually be more misleading, since people would not expect it to be a vulgar post about sex and will get upset.
I understand your concerns.
I cross-post everything I write on Putanumonit to LW by default, which I understood to be the intention of “personal blogposts”. I didn’t write this for LW. If anyone on the mod team told me that this would be better as a link post or off LW entirely, not because it’s bad but because it’s not aligned with LW’s reputation, I’ll be happy to comply.
With that said, my personal opinion is that LW shouldn’t cater to people who form opinions on things before reading them and we should discourage them from hanging out here.
Thanks for the response!
For what it’s worth, I predict that this would have gotten more upvotes here at least with different language, though I realize this was not made primarily for LW.
I think this is a complicated issue. I could appreciate where it’s coming from and could definitely imagine things going too far in either direction. I imagine that both of us would agree it’s a complicated issue, and that there’s probably some line somewhere, though we may of course disagree on where specifically it is.
A literal-ish interpretation of your phrase there is difficult for me to interpret. I feel like I start with priors on things all the time. Like, if I know an article comes from The NYTimes vs. The Daily Stormer, that snippet of data itself would give me what seems like useful data. There’s a ton of stuff online I choose not to read because it seems to be from sources I can’t trust for reasons of source, or a quick read of headline.
I was thinking of people who write comments without reading the post, which pollutes the conversation. Or people who form broad opinions about a writer or a blog without reading. I deal with those people all day every day on Twitter and in the blog comments.
I didn’t mean people deciding what to read based on the title. Of course everyone does that! Someone seeing ‘Go F*** Someone’ may assume that the post will be somewhat vulgar, and will talk about sex. Both things are true. People not interested in vulgar writing about sex shouldn’t read it. If I titled it ‘A Consideration of Narcissism as it Affects the Formation of Long Term Bonds’ that would actually be more misleading, since people would not expect it to be a vulgar post about sex and will get upset.