It seems to me that what XiXiDu wants are not just any high quality posts and the classification of Lesswrong posts into high and low quality buckets fails to capture what he/she tried to convey.
It seems to me that XiXiDu talked about the lack of problem solving posts, the typical titles of which could be something like “Problem 123: Let’s brainstorm for possible angles how to attack it” or “Problem 456: Let’s try an unexpected approach 789 and see if it leads somewhere” (not unlike the aforementioned Polymath Project or maybe even Mathoverflow). Currently neither “Main” (which is mostly about presenting arguments that are already polished), nor “Discussion” (which is a mish mash of mostly links, open threads and posts, that are considered too short to be posted in Main) contains many posts of such type.
It seems to me that what XiXiDu wants are not just any high quality posts and the classification of Lesswrong posts into high and low quality buckets fails to capture what he/she tried to convey. It seems to me that XiXiDu talked about the lack of problem solving posts, the typical titles of which could be something like “Problem 123: Let’s brainstorm for possible angles how to attack it” or “Problem 456: Let’s try an unexpected approach 789 and see if it leads somewhere” (not unlike the aforementioned Polymath Project or maybe even Mathoverflow). Currently neither “Main” (which is mostly about presenting arguments that are already polished), nor “Discussion” (which is a mish mash of mostly links, open threads and posts, that are considered too short to be posted in Main) contains many posts of such type.