I don’t know what is the best way to design a forum for technical discussion. I think that your suggestion is worth consideration. But I guess that some people like to keep their work and their play strictly separate. If you invite them to post on LessWrong, then they aren’t sure which mental folder—work or play—they should put it in, because you can find many things on LessWrong that cannot be described as “work”, many people come here to play. Perhaps it is hard for one place to straddle both work and play. Whether making things strictly separate is the most productive approach is a different question. Perhaps it depends on an individual person, the nature of their work and their hobbies, etc.
Yea, but it kind of worked in the past. There was plenty of technical discussion on LW, and I doubt the limiting factor was a work/play confusion. Especially since most people who participate won’t get paid to do so, so technically it’ll also be “play time” in any case.
I don’t know what is the best way to design a forum for technical discussion. I think that your suggestion is worth consideration. But I guess that some people like to keep their work and their play strictly separate. If you invite them to post on LessWrong, then they aren’t sure which mental folder—work or play—they should put it in, because you can find many things on LessWrong that cannot be described as “work”, many people come here to play. Perhaps it is hard for one place to straddle both work and play. Whether making things strictly separate is the most productive approach is a different question. Perhaps it depends on an individual person, the nature of their work and their hobbies, etc.
Yea, but it kind of worked in the past. There was plenty of technical discussion on LW, and I doubt the limiting factor was a work/play confusion. Especially since most people who participate won’t get paid to do so, so technically it’ll also be “play time” in any case.