I think a norm of “somewhat comfortable by default; solicit maximally frank feedback with an end-of-post request” might be good? It may be easier to say “please be harsher on my claims” than “please be courteous with me.”
Oh yeah, I mean I don’t love the discomfort! I just feel like it’s more efficacious for me to just thicken my skin than to hope LW’s basic social dynamic improves notably. Like, when I look back at the tone of discussion when the site was livelier 10 years ago, it’s the same tone on the individual posts. It just comes off differently because of how many posts there are. Here, you get one person’s comment and it’s the whole reaction you experience. Then, there was a sort of averaging thing that I think made it feel less harsh, even though it was the same basic material. If that makes any sense at all :D
I think a norm of “somewhat comfortable by default; solicit maximally frank feedback with an end-of-post request” might be good? It may be easier to say “please be harsher on my claims” than “please be courteous with me.”
Oh yeah, I mean I don’t love the discomfort! I just feel like it’s more efficacious for me to just thicken my skin than to hope LW’s basic social dynamic improves notably. Like, when I look back at the tone of discussion when the site was livelier 10 years ago, it’s the same tone on the individual posts. It just comes off differently because of how many posts there are. Here, you get one person’s comment and it’s the whole reaction you experience. Then, there was a sort of averaging thing that I think made it feel less harsh, even though it was the same basic material. If that makes any sense at all :D