[Poll #2] Upvote here if you have a preference, considering how this experiment went, to continue the community prohibition on political discussion on LessWrong.
The fact that this is currently at −3 makes me think that polls on LessWrong are not used correctly, so their results are not very telling.
Either that or people who want to discuss politics on LessWrong are overwhelmingly the kind of people for whom reading and understanding simple instructions requires too much effort.
Or the people who don’t want to discuss politics deliberately sabotaged this poll, or I irritated a few people enough that they downvoted stuff I created just to punish me. We can come up with explanations all day, but in the end have a limited set of options without simply ending the experiment and declaring it a failure:
Have a second poll and hope it turns out better. (Which seems unlikely.)
Do what the poll nominally suggests, and create the thread.
?
The second option has the strong benefit of being a second defacto poll. If the thread works, then the poll’s results are vindicated; if it fails, then the poll’s results are rejected as being biased. I’ve noticed the karma votes for the created post have gone up and down constantly since created, which I’m interpreting as being votes for and against politics being discussed here. The net result, thus far, has been neutral.
[Poll #2] Upvote here if you have a preference, considering how this experiment went, to continue the community prohibition on political discussion on LessWrong.
The fact that this is currently at −3 makes me think that polls on LessWrong are not used correctly, so their results are not very telling.
Either that or people who want to discuss politics on LessWrong are overwhelmingly the kind of people for whom reading and understanding simple instructions requires too much effort.
Or the people who don’t want to discuss politics deliberately sabotaged this poll, or I irritated a few people enough that they downvoted stuff I created just to punish me. We can come up with explanations all day, but in the end have a limited set of options without simply ending the experiment and declaring it a failure: Have a second poll and hope it turns out better. (Which seems unlikely.) Do what the poll nominally suggests, and create the thread. ?
The second option has the strong benefit of being a second defacto poll. If the thread works, then the poll’s results are vindicated; if it fails, then the poll’s results are rejected as being biased. I’ve noticed the karma votes for the created post have gone up and down constantly since created, which I’m interpreting as being votes for and against politics being discussed here. The net result, thus far, has been neutral.