SSC does quite well with politics. I would guess that some of it is because discussion is high-brow, some of it is because other users don’t have problems pointing out that someone is an idiot, but mostly because Scott has little compunctions about banning. For example, at some point he basically banned all vocal NRx people because he didn’t want SSC to be primarily seen as a neoreactionary forum.
SSC also has a fairly user-hostile UI which by now I think is deliberate as Scott doesn’t want to shepherd a large community.
I get the impression that SSC comments have managed to do rational debate better than LW does. People who do bad things there are reliably purged by Scott. The topics are interesting which keeps smart people coming.
Take a population of smart people and regularly cull the most dark-arts/mudslinging/anti-epistemology few %.
I don’t like the SSC comments much because I feel like most of what I say there gets ignored and buried, but I definitely think that SSC is very good at dealing with politics.
SSC does quite well with politics. I would guess that some of it is because discussion is high-brow, some of it is because other users don’t have problems pointing out that someone is an idiot, but mostly because Scott has little compunctions about banning. For example, at some point he basically banned all vocal NRx people because he didn’t want SSC to be primarily seen as a neoreactionary forum.
SSC also has a fairly user-hostile UI which by now I think is deliberate as Scott doesn’t want to shepherd a large community.
I get the impression that SSC comments have managed to do rational debate better than LW does. People who do bad things there are reliably purged by Scott. The topics are interesting which keeps smart people coming.
Take a population of smart people and regularly cull the most dark-arts/mudslinging/anti-epistemology few %.
I don’t like the SSC comments much because I feel like most of what I say there gets ignored and buried, but I definitely think that SSC is very good at dealing with politics.