I wonder how much of that negative view comes from the two or three people on RW who in the past have invested a lot of time and energy describing LW in the most uncharitable way, successfully priming many readers.
There are many websites on the internet with a dominant author, specific slang, or weird ideas. People usually ignore them, if they don’t like them.
I am not saying that LW is flawless, only that it is difficult to distinguish between (a) genuine flaws of LW and (b) successfuly anti-LW memes which started for random reasons. Both of them are something people will complain about, but in one case they had to be taught to complain.
I wonder how much of that negative view comes from the two or three people on RW who in the past have invested a lot of time and energy describing LW in the most uncharitable way, successfully priming many readers.
If this is true, or a major factor, then creating a new website is unlikely to be the solution. There is no reason to assume the anti-fans won’t just write the same content about the new website, highlighting “the connection” to LW.
Far removed from starting with a “clean slate”, such a migration could even provide for a new negative spin on the old narrative and it could be perceived as the anti-fans “winning”, and nothing galvanizes like the (perceived) taste of blood.
Yep. At this moment, we need a strategy, not just how to make a good impression in general (and we have already not optimized for this), but also how to prevent active character assassination.
I am not an expert on this topic. And it probably shouldn’t be debated in public, because, obviously, selective quoting from such debate would be another weapon for the anti-fans. The mere fact that you care about your impression and debate other people’s biases can be spinned very easily.
It’s important to realize that we not only have to make a good impression on Joe the Rational Internet Reader, but also to keep social costs of cooperating with us reasonable low for Joe. At the end, we care not only about Joe’s opinion, but also about opinions of people around him.
I wonder how much of that negative view comes from the two or three people on RW who in the past have invested a lot of time and energy describing LW in the most uncharitable way, successfully priming many readers.
There are many websites on the internet with a dominant author, specific slang, or weird ideas. People usually ignore them, if they don’t like them.
I am not saying that LW is flawless, only that it is difficult to distinguish between (a) genuine flaws of LW and (b) successfuly anti-LW memes which started for random reasons. Both of them are something people will complain about, but in one case they had to be taught to complain.
If this is true, or a major factor, then creating a new website is unlikely to be the solution. There is no reason to assume the anti-fans won’t just write the same content about the new website, highlighting “the connection” to LW.
Far removed from starting with a “clean slate”, such a migration could even provide for a new negative spin on the old narrative and it could be perceived as the anti-fans “winning”, and nothing galvanizes like the (perceived) taste of blood.
Yep. At this moment, we need a strategy, not just how to make a good impression in general (and we have already not optimized for this), but also how to prevent active character assassination.
I am not an expert on this topic. And it probably shouldn’t be debated in public, because, obviously, selective quoting from such debate would be another weapon for the anti-fans. The mere fact that you care about your impression and debate other people’s biases can be spinned very easily.
It’s important to realize that we not only have to make a good impression on Joe the Rational Internet Reader, but also to keep social costs of cooperating with us reasonable low for Joe. At the end, we care not only about Joe’s opinion, but also about opinions of people around him.