I think this thought experiment isn’t relevant, because I think there are sufficient strong disanalogies between [your imagined document] and [this actual document], and [the imagined forum trying to gain members] and [the existing LessWrong].
i.e. I think the conclusion of the thought experiment is indeed as you are implying, and also that this fact doesn’t mean much here.
I thought about this a bit more, and I think that given the choice between explicit discourse rules and implicit ones, explicit is better. So insofar as your post is making existing discourse rules more explicit, that seems good.
I think this thought experiment isn’t relevant, because I think there are sufficient strong disanalogies between [your imagined document] and [this actual document], and [the imagined forum trying to gain members] and [the existing LessWrong].
i.e. I think the conclusion of the thought experiment is indeed as you are implying, and also that this fact doesn’t mean much here.
Well, the story from my comment basically explains why I gave up on LW in the past. So I thought it was worth putting the possibility on your radar.
I thought about this a bit more, and I think that given the choice between explicit discourse rules and implicit ones, explicit is better. So insofar as your post is making existing discourse rules more explicit, that seems good.