Considering the strong evidence that lesswrong isn’t nice enough, unnecessary vitriol should always be removed.
I’m curious! I updated my views on lesswrong’s niceness (based on the top-level post about the issue and giving extra weight to the comments section because this is a case about the lesswrong community) to “I don’t have a fucking clue”. And if at all possible I would dearly like to have a clue.
The evidence I saw is that people left because it wasn’t nice enough. No one seemed to think it was too nice, and some people saw drawbacks with increased niceness, but this doesn’t seem like a case where those drawbacks are significant.
I’m curious! I updated my views on lesswrong’s niceness (based on the top-level post about the issue and giving extra weight to the comments section because this is a case about the lesswrong community) to “I don’t have a fucking clue”. And if at all possible I would dearly like to have a clue.
The evidence I saw is that people left because it wasn’t nice enough. No one seemed to think it was too nice, and some people saw drawbacks with increased niceness, but this doesn’t seem like a case where those drawbacks are significant.