I disagree; I think our standards are too high for main. If we lowered our standards maybe main would actually see activity. When people see posts like this getting downvoted they learn that Less Wrong probably doesn’t want to read what they write. Even if the stuff they want to write is pretty good.
Yes, I daresay that the expected quality of mainspace posts is substantially higher than some of the posts in the Sequences. And that’s ok.
I disagree; I think our standards are too high for main. If we lowered our standards maybe main would actually see activity. When people see posts like this getting downvoted they learn that Less Wrong probably doesn’t want to read what they write. Even if the stuff they want to write is pretty good.