Aren’t you? I mean, you’re not making concrete proposals yourself, of course; I don’t think I have ever seen you make a concrete constructive proposal about anything, as opposed to objecting to other people’s. But looking at the things you object to and the things you don’t, it seems to me that you’re taking a position on how LW’s discussions should be just as much as eagain is; you’re just expressing it by objecting to things that diverge from it, rather than by stating it explicitly.
Lumifer seems to object to things because he finds it enjoyable to object to things, and this is a good explanation for why he objects to things rather than making his own proposals. But this means that he is not necessarily taking a position on how discussion should be, since he would be likely to object to both a proposal and its opposite, just because it would still be fun to object.
I don’t think I have ever seen you make a concrete constructive proposal about anything, as opposed to objecting to other people’s.
Hmm. That sounds like a nice rule: anyone who spends all their posting efforts on objecting to other people’s ideas without putting forth anything constructive of their own shall be banned, or at least downvoted into oblivion.
And yet I’m not telling LW how to set up discussions...
Aren’t you? I mean, you’re not making concrete proposals yourself, of course; I don’t think I have ever seen you make a concrete constructive proposal about anything, as opposed to objecting to other people’s. But looking at the things you object to and the things you don’t, it seems to me that you’re taking a position on how LW’s discussions should be just as much as eagain is; you’re just expressing it by objecting to things that diverge from it, rather than by stating it explicitly.
Lumifer seems to object to things because he finds it enjoyable to object to things, and this is a good explanation for why he objects to things rather than making his own proposals. But this means that he is not necessarily taking a position on how discussion should be, since he would be likely to object to both a proposal and its opposite, just because it would still be fun to object.
It seems to me that there are definite regularities in which proposals he objects to and which he doesn’t.
Hmm. That sounds like a nice rule: anyone who spends all their posting efforts on objecting to other people’s ideas without putting forth anything constructive of their own shall be banned, or at least downvoted into oblivion.
I think that would be excessive. Pointing out others’ mistakes is a useful activity. (Think of Socrates.) Also, downvoting is disabled right now.
The thing is, I understand the difference between argument points and policy proposals. These are very very different creatures.