That is a great point!!! Can we turn it into actionable advice for “creating better LW”?
Maybe there is a chance to create a vivid (LW-style) rationalist community on Reddit. We just have to find out what is the secret that makes the three subreddits you mentioned different from the rest of Reddit, and make it work for a LW-style forum.
I noticed CMV has about 30 moderators, AskScience has several hundreds, and SpaceX has nine. I don’t know what is the average, but at this moment I have an impression that a large-ish number of active moderators is a must.
Another ingredient is probably that these sites seem to have clear rules on what is okay; what should one optimize for. In CMV, it’s replies that “change OP’s mind”; in AskScience it’s replies compatible with respected science. -- I am afraid we couldn’t have a similarly clear rule for “x-rationality”.
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I like the anti-advice page for CMV. (And I find it quite amusing that a lot of them pretty much describe how RationalWiki works.) I posted that link on LW.
That is a great point!!! Can we turn it into actionable advice for “creating better LW”?
Maybe there is a chance to create a vivid (LW-style) rationalist community on Reddit. We just have to find out what is the secret that makes the three subreddits you mentioned different from the rest of Reddit, and make it work for a LW-style forum.
I noticed CMV has about 30 moderators, AskScience has several hundreds, and SpaceX has nine. I don’t know what is the average, but at this moment I have an impression that a large-ish number of active moderators is a must.
Another ingredient is probably that these sites seem to have clear rules on what is okay; what should one optimize for. In CMV, it’s replies that “change OP’s mind”; in AskScience it’s replies compatible with respected science. -- I am afraid we couldn’t have a similarly clear rule for “x-rationality”.
EDIT:
I like the anti-advice page for CMV. (And I find it quite amusing that a lot of them pretty much describe how RationalWiki works.) I posted that link on LW.