As for dupes, the search on the site is adequate for finding them—what’s needed is a recommendation on the quotes page for people to check before posting.
I think the quotes continue to be somewhat interesting, but it’s not so much that there are no great ones left (though I was surprised to discover recently that “Nature to be commanded must be obeyed” hadn’t been listed) as that they tend to keep hitting the same points.
There’s always room for improvement in the software. Once in a while, there’s a request for suggestions, so you might want to think about the changes you’d like to see.
Unmanageable because the site software doesn’t show more than 500 (top-level?) comments, and because large numbers of comments load more slowly.
There’s a way to find top-voted quotes—Best of Rationality Quotes 2009/2010 (Warning: 750kB page, 774 quotes). This could be considered a hint about the quantity problem.
There is another one for 2011.
As for dupes, the search on the site is adequate for finding them—what’s needed is a recommendation on the quotes page for people to check before posting.
I think the quotes continue to be somewhat interesting, but it’s not so much that there are no great ones left (though I was surprised to discover recently that “Nature to be commanded must be obeyed” hadn’t been listed) as that they tend to keep hitting the same points.
I see. Thank you.
It seems to me that there’s room for improvement to the software, then. However, I’ll shut up at this point.
You’re welcome.
There’s always room for improvement in the software. Once in a while, there’s a request for suggestions, so you might want to think about the changes you’d like to see.
To my mind, the redundancy problem with the quotes pages isn’t so much repeated quotes as different quotes which mean pretty much the same thing.
How many different things are there to say about rationality?
Well, the right question is “How many different brief things are there to say about rationality?”
If you’re allowed to go on at length, the sequences imply that there’s quite a bit to say.
I don’t think the question about brief statements has an a priori answer.