Upvoted. Great post, and I agree completely. I’m somewhat new here, and don’t have a great feel for this type of thing, but might this belong on the main page? If not, can someone explain why? I’m still not really clear on what makes that distinction, and there doesn’t seem to be consistent posting on the matter.
I’m 21, and my experience was that I changed my mind a lot as a teenager. I would go through large shifts in belief on a great number of things very fundamental to real life. So consider me another data point (although your data points aren’t really collected randomly) in your study.
My data points are far from a systemic study, but I appreciate your perspective.
I have a hard time determining the delineation between Discussion/Main, but I decided this didn’t really cover any new ground so belonged in discussion. If we have a really good discussion and new points are brought up I might rewrite it for the main page (and include science and real studies, not just anecdotal evidence).
That’s a pretty good standard. Another distinction is discussion posts can bring up problems, but main page posts are expected to solve the problem, usually in a new way. This is why people downvoted Matthew’s post.
I rewrote a discussion article for the main page and i still don’t know if its up to snuff xD but we teenage rationalists gotta stick together and I thought your article was great.
Upvoted. Great post, and I agree completely. I’m somewhat new here, and don’t have a great feel for this type of thing, but might this belong on the main page? If not, can someone explain why? I’m still not really clear on what makes that distinction, and there doesn’t seem to be consistent posting on the matter.
I’m 21, and my experience was that I changed my mind a lot as a teenager. I would go through large shifts in belief on a great number of things very fundamental to real life. So consider me another data point (although your data points aren’t really collected randomly) in your study.
My data points are far from a systemic study, but I appreciate your perspective.
I have a hard time determining the delineation between Discussion/Main, but I decided this didn’t really cover any new ground so belonged in discussion. If we have a really good discussion and new points are brought up I might rewrite it for the main page (and include science and real studies, not just anecdotal evidence).
That’s a pretty good standard. Another distinction is discussion posts can bring up problems, but main page posts are expected to solve the problem, usually in a new way. This is why people downvoted Matthew’s post.
Since the Main page is the only part that many new members see, it’s perfectly fine for a post on Main to cover ground that’s familiar to veterans.
Personally, I think that this post has the solid content and polished style that merits promotion to the Main area.
I rewrote a discussion article for the main page and i still don’t know if its up to snuff xD but we teenage rationalists gotta stick together and I thought your article was great.
The main page is subject to a lot of “pretending to be wise” scrutiny, as i recently discovered with my attempt.