That’s too bad. Your experience differs from mine. However, I have only a 13th as many posts as you have, so it’s possible this may change in the future.
Of the two private messages I’ve received both made total sense as private messages. One dealt with sensitive issues neither of us felt like stating publicly and the other corrected a minor miscalculation in one of my posts (which I immediately fixed).
With these exceptions aside, yes, I also prefer comments to my posts. One of my favorite reasons has to do with replying. Often commenter B will reply better to commenter A than I could have done myself. This is especially useful when several commenters produce various phenotypes of the same fundamental error.
I’d like to second this and say my experience has also been completely different.
There are some conversations that make sense to have 1v1, and most of the value I’ve gained from writing things has been when someone contacts me in private.
It does seem that while LessWrong doesn’t actively discourage it, the site’s UX makes it quite inconvenient to have those interactions.
That’s too bad. Your experience differs from mine. However, I have only a 13th as many posts as you have, so it’s possible this may change in the future.
Of the two private messages I’ve received both made total sense as private messages. One dealt with sensitive issues neither of us felt like stating publicly and the other corrected a minor miscalculation in one of my posts (which I immediately fixed).
With these exceptions aside, yes, I also prefer comments to my posts. One of my favorite reasons has to do with replying. Often commenter B will reply better to commenter A than I could have done myself. This is especially useful when several commenters produce various phenotypes of the same fundamental error.
I’d like to second this and say my experience has also been completely different.
There are some conversations that make sense to have 1v1, and most of the value I’ve gained from writing things has been when someone contacts me in private.
It does seem that while LessWrong doesn’t actively discourage it, the site’s UX makes it quite inconvenient to have those interactions.