LessWrong doesn’t have any noteworthy technical problems, save for the much-clamoured need for a thematic breakup into subreddits. You’re likely to waste more effort in that direction than you’ll get benefit out of it.
It’s the people, stupid. It has always been the people.
Simply put, the current crop of users makes for stale, insubstantial discussions and a bad social atmosphere. Everybody who didn’t suck went off and moved to the Bay Area and entered a poly relationship with several other rationalists and they’re all now frolicking around in meatspace and on Facebook. Nearly every active user that’s still around gets on my nerves, personally. As for those who have found out about LW and haven’t joined up already, it hasn’t been the insufficiently well-organized homepage that pushed them away; more likely, they didn’t want to be within ten miles of singularitarians. MIRI has milked this place for all it was worth. It’s done. Let it die and hope something better rises up from its ashes.
Shen Dao was fixated on laws and did not understand the value of having worthy people.
Don’t worry, I’m interested in worthy people and the things that keep worthy people around.
Let it die and hope something better rises up from its ashes.
I suggested as much before, but the thing that convinced me was talking with Malcolm about a new blog that he was setting up with some rationalist all-stars, that had 90 feedly subscriptions basically immediately after the announcement, and then we checked the LW RSS and saw that it had ten thousand subscriptions on feedly.
There are huge switching costs with moving off LessWrong relative to fixing LessWrong.
I’ve downvoted you because at the same time you manage to insult everyone still on this forum with a single sentence, including those who supposedly ran away but still read, while maintaining the exact behaviour that you say has driven valuable content away. All of this without the courage to use your real name to express a critique.
A neat feat of compartimentalization, kudos (not).
This appears to be something down the social-grade of improvements. Can you comment/write something (to help me) the effect of “good social attitude” or “positive social structure” (Maybe on a new comment thread)
I’ve deleted my account ages ago, and anyway according to you it’s just as well that I did. I’m only being mean now because there is no more valuable content to drive away, I don’t care enough for the lot of you to be nicer than this. It’s hard for us all to internalize the feeling that we’re the ones driving the average down, but sometimes it’s true.
Want constructive criticism? Here it is: import a new user base from a better forum.
It’s kinda strange to say that people who are still around get on your nerves. From what I observed many of those are actually here from early LW days (think about a year after it was founded) so wouldn’t that mean that the most loyal userbase gets on your nerves, despite them being what keeps LW running?
LessWrong doesn’t have any noteworthy technical problems, save for the much-clamoured need for a thematic breakup into subreddits. You’re likely to waste more effort in that direction than you’ll get benefit out of it.
It’s the people, stupid. It has always been the people.
Simply put, the current crop of users makes for stale, insubstantial discussions and a bad social atmosphere. Everybody who didn’t suck went off and moved to the Bay Area and entered a poly relationship with several other rationalists and they’re all now frolicking around in meatspace and on Facebook. Nearly every active user that’s still around gets on my nerves, personally. As for those who have found out about LW and haven’t joined up already, it hasn’t been the insufficiently well-organized homepage that pushed them away; more likely, they didn’t want to be within ten miles of singularitarians. MIRI has milked this place for all it was worth. It’s done. Let it die and hope something better rises up from its ashes.
Don’t worry, I’m interested in worthy people and the things that keep worthy people around.
I suggested as much before, but the thing that convinced me was talking with Malcolm about a new blog that he was setting up with some rationalist all-stars, that had 90 feedly subscriptions basically immediately after the announcement, and then we checked the LW RSS and saw that it had ten thousand subscriptions on feedly.
There are huge switching costs with moving off LessWrong relative to fixing LessWrong.
I’ve downvoted you because at the same time you manage to insult everyone still on this forum with a single sentence, including those who supposedly ran away but still read, while maintaining the exact behaviour that you say has driven valuable content away. All of this without the courage to use your real name to express a critique. A neat feat of compartimentalization, kudos (not).
This appears to be something down the social-grade of improvements. Can you comment/write something (to help me) the effect of “good social attitude” or “positive social structure” (Maybe on a new comment thread)
I’ve deleted my account ages ago, and anyway according to you it’s just as well that I did. I’m only being mean now because there is no more valuable content to drive away, I don’t care enough for the lot of you to be nicer than this. It’s hard for us all to internalize the feeling that we’re the ones driving the average down, but sometimes it’s true.
Want constructive criticism? Here it is: import a new user base from a better forum.
It’s kinda strange to say that people who are still around get on your nerves. From what I observed many of those are actually here from early LW days (think about a year after it was founded) so wouldn’t that mean that the most loyal userbase gets on your nerves, despite them being what keeps LW running?