We can start small, maybe with just a message board (to replace and expand the functionality of the reddit, and perhaps of LW’s open threads). A few message boards aren’t hard to maintain. Then once the boards are active enough, start experimenting with expanding the functionality.
We can wait before doing much. Launching something like this right after (or right before) HPMoR concludes strikes me as a rather good idea. The site would then function as HPMoR’s Pottermore.
It’s worth thinking in more detail about what exactly we’d want out of something like this, and about risks (e.g., making LW look even more foreboding). Also, we should brainstorm features we’d implement on forums or games if we could, that aren’t easily implemented on LW or the reddit. E.g., rules that encourage people more to ask questions (and get answers where on LW we might just default to ‘go read the Sequences’), be friendly and goofy, express positive thoughts/feelings, and build strong emotional social connections, including ones that might be too cumbersome to make general practice on LW.
I think that this sounds like a great idea, though it also seems like one that would take a lot of effort to put together.
Two thoughts:
We can start small, maybe with just a message board (to replace and expand the functionality of the reddit, and perhaps of LW’s open threads). A few message boards aren’t hard to maintain. Then once the boards are active enough, start experimenting with expanding the functionality.
We can wait before doing much. Launching something like this right after (or right before) HPMoR concludes strikes me as a rather good idea. The site would then function as HPMoR’s Pottermore.
It’s worth thinking in more detail about what exactly we’d want out of something like this, and about risks (e.g., making LW look even more foreboding). Also, we should brainstorm features we’d implement on forums or games if we could, that aren’t easily implemented on LW or the reddit. E.g., rules that encourage people more to ask questions (and get answers where on LW we might just default to ‘go read the Sequences’), be friendly and goofy, express positive thoughts/feelings, and build strong emotional social connections, including ones that might be too cumbersome to make general practice on LW.