Where, specifically, do you not see progress? I see much better recognition of, say, regression to the mean here than in the general population, despite it never being covered in the sequences.
This is a very interesting question. I cannot cite a lack of something. But maybe what I’m saying here will be obvious-in-retrospect if I put it like this:
This post is terrible. But some of the comments pointing out its mistakes are great. On the other hand, it’s easier to point out the mistakes in other people’s posts than to be right yourself. Where are the new posts saying thunderously correct things, rather than mediocre posts with great comments pointing out what’s wrong with them?
That terrible post is hardly an example of a newbie problem—it’s clearly a one-off by someone who read one post and isn’t interested in anything else about the site, but was sufficiently angry to create a login and post.
That is, it’s genuine feedback from the outside world. As such, trying really hard to eliminate this sort of post strikes me as something you should be cautious about.
Where, specifically, do you not see progress? I see much better recognition of, say, regression to the mean here than in the general population, despite it never being covered in the sequences.
This is a very interesting question. I cannot cite a lack of something. But maybe what I’m saying here will be obvious-in-retrospect if I put it like this:
This post is terrible. But some of the comments pointing out its mistakes are great. On the other hand, it’s easier to point out the mistakes in other people’s posts than to be right yourself. Where are the new posts saying thunderously correct things, rather than mediocre posts with great comments pointing out what’s wrong with them?
That terrible post is hardly an example of a newbie problem—it’s clearly a one-off by someone who read one post and isn’t interested in anything else about the site, but was sufficiently angry to create a login and post.
That is, it’s genuine feedback from the outside world. As such, trying really hard to eliminate this sort of post strikes me as something you should be cautious about.
Also, such posts are rare.