You’re right, but this isn’t supposed to be a forum—I think it’s better to make off-topic conversations less convenient. The system seems to work adequately right now.
I suppose you’re right in saying that LW isn’t supposed to be a forum, but the fact remains that there is a growing trend towards more casual/off-topic/non-rationalism discussion, which seems perfectly fine to me given that we are a community of generally like-minded people. I suspect that it would be preferable to many if LW had better accommodations for these sort of interactions, perhaps something separate from main site so we could cleanly distinguish serious rationalism discussion from off-topic discussion.
Are you guys still not tired of trying to shoehorn a reddit into a forum?
I don’t understand the question. What are we doing that you describe this way, and why do you expect us to be tired of it?
There are a lot of open thread posts, which would be better dealt with on a forum rather than on an open thread with a reddit like system.
You’re right, but this isn’t supposed to be a forum—I think it’s better to make off-topic conversations less convenient. The system seems to work adequately right now.
I suppose you’re right in saying that LW isn’t supposed to be a forum, but the fact remains that there is a growing trend towards more casual/off-topic/non-rationalism discussion, which seems perfectly fine to me given that we are a community of generally like-minded people. I suspect that it would be preferable to many if LW had better accommodations for these sort of interactions, perhaps something separate from main site so we could cleanly distinguish serious rationalism discussion from off-topic discussion.
Perhaps a monthly or quarterly lounge thread could serve this function, provided it does not become too much of a distraction.
Me neither.
I’m tired of it, I’d like to get a real subreddit enabled here as soon as possible.
We could just start a forum and stop complaining about it.