I figured the intent of the rule was “don’t turn quotes threads into LW ingroup circlejerks”, so the idea’s to not do any quotes from e.g. the people in the “Top contributors” sidebar, no matter where they showed up. Do other people have other interpretations for the rule?
When did this rule come about? As recently as six months ago it was considered normal to quote EY as long as it wasn’t from LW.
I’m surprised by this. I never noticed this “considered normal”.
I’m pretty sure gray areas aren’t rules. The actual non-gray rule is listed in the OP.
Well, Yudkowsky was one of the top authors for 2011.
I figured the intent of the rule was “don’t turn quotes threads into LW ingroup circlejerks”, so the idea’s to not do any quotes from e.g. the people in the “Top contributors” sidebar, no matter where they showed up. Do other people have other interpretations for the rule?