Seems plausible that just rules are good enough. There are benefits to having more dynamic stuff, and I would guess that a lot of LessWrong’s success partially comes from its ability to cover a large range of subjects, and to draw deep connections between things that initially seem unrelated. At the moment it seems unlikely that a system as restricted as a StackExchange seems like the best choice for us, but moving more in that direction might get us a lot of the benefit.
Seems plausible that just rules are good enough. There are benefits to having more dynamic stuff, and I would guess that a lot of LessWrong’s success partially comes from its ability to cover a large range of subjects, and to draw deep connections between things that initially seem unrelated. At the moment it seems unlikely that a system as restricted as a StackExchange seems like the best choice for us, but moving more in that direction might get us a lot of the benefit.