As the content is public, I’m not worried about the site functioning so much. My biggest worry is a disruption of the community. The AI safety sub-community, in particular, seems important though it probably doesn’t depend on LW to function. I don’t know how much influx it causes but it seems relevant. As jimrandomh writes, trolling is probably not a problem but there are quite a few events that could trouble—and tech may be a factor in scaling them. It would interesting to monitor health stats like average sentiment or look for controversial patterns (Sort By Controversial).
As the content is public, I’m not worried about the site functioning so much. My biggest worry is a disruption of the community. The AI safety sub-community, in particular, seems important though it probably doesn’t depend on LW to function. I don’t know how much influx it causes but it seems relevant. As jimrandomh writes, trolling is probably not a problem but there are quite a few events that could trouble—and tech may be a factor in scaling them. It would interesting to monitor health stats like average sentiment or look for controversial patterns (Sort By Controversial).