This is a good point. Maybe future meta-discussions could be on talk pages for wiki articles, about specific changes to those articles, especially the about page and the FAQ? These actually represent how LW culture is being codified for new users, but unfortunately none of the recent debates seem to of resulted in substantial modification to them.
It’s too bad that automatic wiki editing privileges don’t come with a certain level of karma; would remove a trivial inconvenience and eliminate wiki spam.
It’s too bad that automatic wiki editing privileges don’t come with a certain level of karma
Hmmm… you know that wouldn’t be too hard to arrange. Keeping the passwords in sync after a change to one account would be much more work, but might be ignorable.
Ideally it seems like you would get your wiki authentication cookie automatically after logging into Less Wrong, so you could log in once and use both. I don’t know if that changes things regarding passwords.
This is a good point. Maybe future meta-discussions could be on talk pages for wiki articles, about specific changes to those articles, especially the about page and the FAQ? These actually represent how LW culture is being codified for new users, but unfortunately none of the recent debates seem to of resulted in substantial modification to them.
It’s too bad that automatic wiki editing privileges don’t come with a certain level of karma; would remove a trivial inconvenience and eliminate wiki spam.
Hmmm… you know that wouldn’t be too hard to arrange. Keeping the passwords in sync after a change to one account would be much more work, but might be ignorable.
Ideally it seems like you would get your wiki authentication cookie automatically after logging into Less Wrong, so you could log in once and use both. I don’t know if that changes things regarding passwords.