I have a strong ideological opposition to the idea that teenagers shouldn’t read about sex. The median age of virginity loss is 17; it is a good idea for teenagers to have information about sex *before* they lose their virginities. I would be totally comfortable with arbitrary teenagers reading my post.
I agree with this, but when a teenager, would have been very uncomfortable reading your post. As it is, I’m comfortable reading it, but was feeling aversion to it being on less wrong. I think this is due to the use of sexual humor and using harsh words flippantly, both of which I see your reason for doing and agree that for folks it is helpful for, it is in fact valuable. But I think teenagers that have not been exposed to sexuality, as I more or less had not, will be averse to interacting with such a harsh version of it for fear of Being Crass(tm).
I value having your contributions here, and if you decide that this is important enough to you that you’d rather cancel your autoposting to lesswrong than give up on normalizing vulgarity, I think I would want your content to still get to be on lesswrong, and would prefer keeping it reposted at the cost of including language that many folks will be averse to reading.
However, I think that phrasing things the way you do creates a powerful filter bubble effect that makes the people it would most help want to not read it. If it’s something you’re willing to do, I’d prefer to avoid that.
I don’t know how to map this to what I’d enforce on the whole site.
I don’t autopost; I manually crosspost. I intend to continue doing this in the future because I suspect I will keep writing posts that *would* be appropriate for LW if I changed X, Y, or Z, and manually crossposting makes it easier to change X, Y, and Z. For instance, I added a content warning in my latest post; in the future I will remove sex jokes and impolite words for genitals, since there seems to be a broad consensus against those things; I have at least one post I’m drafting where the Thing of Things version will contain politics where the LW version will contain “political implications left as an exercise for the reader.”
Can I request that when you do change things, you link to the Thing of Things version with a brief summary of the differences? I think I’d usually prefer to read that version, but I’d usually see the version here sooner.
This isn’t like a big deal, so feel free to ignore.
When I actually announce on Thing of Things that I’ve been crossposting (I want to wait to the end of the open beta), I will ask about people’s link preferences. Writing up a summary of changes sounds like a lot of work and pretty boring to most readers.
To clarify, all I’d be requesting is like “also on my blog, with more swears and politics”. (Even “with minor changes” would signal to me that I should read it there; but “more swears and politics” would tell me that even if I hadn’t seen this thread.)
I agree with this, but when a teenager, would have been very uncomfortable reading your post. As it is, I’m comfortable reading it, but was feeling aversion to it being on less wrong. I think this is due to the use of sexual humor and using harsh words flippantly, both of which I see your reason for doing and agree that for folks it is helpful for, it is in fact valuable. But I think teenagers that have not been exposed to sexuality, as I more or less had not, will be averse to interacting with such a harsh version of it for fear of Being Crass(tm).
I value having your contributions here, and if you decide that this is important enough to you that you’d rather cancel your autoposting to lesswrong than give up on normalizing vulgarity, I think I would want your content to still get to be on lesswrong, and would prefer keeping it reposted at the cost of including language that many folks will be averse to reading.
However, I think that phrasing things the way you do creates a powerful filter bubble effect that makes the people it would most help want to not read it. If it’s something you’re willing to do, I’d prefer to avoid that.
I don’t know how to map this to what I’d enforce on the whole site.
I don’t autopost; I manually crosspost. I intend to continue doing this in the future because I suspect I will keep writing posts that *would* be appropriate for LW if I changed X, Y, or Z, and manually crossposting makes it easier to change X, Y, and Z. For instance, I added a content warning in my latest post; in the future I will remove sex jokes and impolite words for genitals, since there seems to be a broad consensus against those things; I have at least one post I’m drafting where the Thing of Things version will contain politics where the LW version will contain “political implications left as an exercise for the reader.”
Can I request that when you do change things, you link to the Thing of Things version with a brief summary of the differences? I think I’d usually prefer to read that version, but I’d usually see the version here sooner.
This isn’t like a big deal, so feel free to ignore.
When I actually announce on Thing of Things that I’ve been crossposting (I want to wait to the end of the open beta), I will ask about people’s link preferences. Writing up a summary of changes sounds like a lot of work and pretty boring to most readers.
That seems a good strategy, yes.
To clarify, all I’d be requesting is like “also on my blog, with more swears and politics”. (Even “with minor changes” would signal to me that I should read it there; but “more swears and politics” would tell me that even if I hadn’t seen this thread.)