It doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive. The problem is that the open threads are over-crowded, so having another place to discuss off-topic things should help make it easier to use them too.
Let me know if you can read the notice for this comment in your message center—judging by the pattern of crashed pages, it’s a comment in reply to this one which is crashing Less Wrong.
I guess that’s the main thing I don’t like about this idea. Especially if people cross-post to both, the resulting discussion will get fragmented between the two sites (or everyone will have to remember to post their replies to both).
It doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive. The problem is that the open threads are over-crowded, so having another place to discuss off-topic things should help make it easier to use them too.
How do you decide which to use? Is there something in particular that the open threads would be for?
Let me know if you can read the notice for this comment in your message center—judging by the pattern of crashed pages, it’s a comment in reply to this one which is crashing Less Wrong.
I can, it worked.
“How do you decide which to use? Is there something in particular that the open threads would be for?”
Whichever you feel like. You could (and quite plausibly should) post it to both, actually, at least for now.
I guess that’s the main thing I don’t like about this idea. Especially if people cross-post to both, the resulting discussion will get fragmented between the two sites (or everyone will have to remember to post their replies to both).