Adding to what @lahwran said. One of the reasons why behind the Great Less Wrong Collapse was that everyone moved to their own blogs and areas. Part of the reason was that some people wanted to write about politics or write more casual posts where they relax their epistemic standards, ect. So the blog feature was created to bring them back onto the website, but for this to work people had to be able to post the things that they would have normally posted on their own site. I think though that there needs to be a better way to visually distinguish between blog posts and the frontpage.
If you look at the Frontpage Posting and Commenting Guidelines, you’ll see that: “Note that this guide doesn’t apply to your personal LW blog—you can do whatever you like there. This post talks about the norms and epistemic standards encouraged on the frontpage of LessWrong”.
Adding to what @lahwran said. One of the reasons why behind the Great Less Wrong Collapse was that everyone moved to their own blogs and areas. Part of the reason was that some people wanted to write about politics or write more casual posts where they relax their epistemic standards, ect. So the blog feature was created to bring them back onto the website, but for this to work people had to be able to post the things that they would have normally posted on their own site. I think though that there needs to be a better way to visually distinguish between blog posts and the frontpage.
If you look at the Frontpage Posting and Commenting Guidelines, you’ll see that: “Note that this guide doesn’t apply to your personal LW blog—you can do whatever you like there. This post talks about the norms and epistemic standards encouraged on the frontpage of LessWrong”.