So the ultimate trigger to move wasn’t some hifalutin’ desires to apply media ecology theories to optimize for inquiry (as was my theory), but much more mundane and urgent needs to fight spam and trolls!
I found this announcement of LessWrong 2.0, which indeed mentions spam and trolls. The main innovation seems to be the delightfully named “Eigenkarma”, which I think is approximated by ForumMagnum by making your vote strength approximately the log of your karma.
So the ultimate trigger to move wasn’t some hifalutin’ desires to apply media ecology theories to optimize for inquiry (as was my theory), but much more mundane and urgent needs to fight spam and trolls!
I found this announcement of LessWrong 2.0, which indeed mentions spam and trolls. The main innovation seems to be the delightfully named “Eigenkarma”, which I think is approximated by ForumMagnum by making your vote strength approximately the log of your karma.