When I first joined, I barely commented, because I felt it would inexcusably lower the average comment quality. I still refrain on topics which I’m interested, but not competent in; but for the last 18 months or so I’ve felt more comfortable with the vector my comments apply to the site average.
Separately, I generally agree with Will Newsome about the high quality of your contributions.
This being my first comment, I found LW through Google Plus, and my first reading was So You Want To Save The World, which took me a couple of weeks due to the prerequisite papers, plus a tonofother stuff i was reading at the time. One might say, that that might have been an unnecessarily daunting introduction to a community—any community—but I’m glad of the way it happened because I’d never have gotten as interested in cogsci and “A-grade+ rationality” as i have been ever since. That was just before Christmas last year. Now, I’ve read most of the sequences, and even used some of the tools recommended here, but constantly struggle to find a good place to start making contributions to discussions. So it’s taken me roughly 8 months of lurking to do this post. Does everyone do this, or am I a unique point in newb-space?
When I first joined, I barely commented, because I felt it would inexcusably lower the average comment quality. I still refrain on topics which I’m interested, but not competent in; but for the last 18 months or so I’ve felt more comfortable with the vector my comments apply to the site average.
Separately, I generally agree with Will Newsome about the high quality of your contributions.
This being my first comment, I found LW through Google Plus, and my first reading was So You Want To Save The World, which took me a couple of weeks due to the prerequisite papers, plus a ton of other stuff i was reading at the time. One might say, that that might have been an unnecessarily daunting introduction to a community—any community—but I’m glad of the way it happened because I’d never have gotten as interested in cogsci and “A-grade+ rationality” as i have been ever since. That was just before Christmas last year. Now, I’ve read most of the sequences, and even used some of the tools recommended here, but constantly struggle to find a good place to start making contributions to discussions. So it’s taken me roughly 8 months of lurking to do this post. Does everyone do this, or am I a unique point in newb-space?