I’m also in the process of creating a Facebook group for attendees of all meetups worldwide.
There used to be a LessWrong Facebook group and now there isn’t anymore. Are you aware of what happened? What kind of governance do you want for the new group?
I am not aware of what happened. My guess from your tone is tragedy of the commons or something Eugine-like?
I grant that this is an experiment that could go poorly. I’m currently talking with someone who has experience running online rationalist spaces about potentially moderating the group, which I think should help. I’d want fairly strict moderation policies, with most of the discussion focused on meetups themselves (either how to run them or things that happen at them). The group would also be walled (not just freely open to the public).
Basically, there was political discussion happening with non-PC views. As far as I remember EY thought that it was bad to have that group associated with the LW brand and wanted to ban people. There was drama and the group was renamed into Brain Debugging Discussion.
One way to prevent this from happening would be to ban political discussion explicitly.
I don’t remember the details, but I think it was more that the discussion was generally low-quality, not because of the political content in particular.
If I recall correctly, I knew the guy running it, and while he was well-intentioned, he had not read the sequences or much of LW, and the low-quality content was the reason for the name change.
There used to be a LessWrong Facebook group and now there isn’t anymore. Are you aware of what happened? What kind of governance do you want for the new group?
I am not aware of what happened. My guess from your tone is tragedy of the commons or something Eugine-like?
I grant that this is an experiment that could go poorly. I’m currently talking with someone who has experience running online rationalist spaces about potentially moderating the group, which I think should help. I’d want fairly strict moderation policies, with most of the discussion focused on meetups themselves (either how to run them or things that happen at them). The group would also be walled (not just freely open to the public).
Basically, there was political discussion happening with non-PC views. As far as I remember EY thought that it was bad to have that group associated with the LW brand and wanted to ban people. There was drama and the group was renamed into Brain Debugging Discussion.
One way to prevent this from happening would be to ban political discussion explicitly.
I don’t remember the details, but I think it was more that the discussion was generally low-quality, not because of the political content in particular.
If I recall correctly, I knew the guy running it, and while he was well-intentioned, he had not read the sequences or much of LW, and the low-quality content was the reason for the name change.