We encourage people to post whatever seems interesting to them on their personal blog (which is, basically, the default-submit-post process at the moment). Mods move stuff to frontpage if it seems like a good fit.
If the post wasn’t already LW content due to explaining some low-hanging fruit, it’s certainly LW content now that you’ve jumped on such minor points as the title because it doesn’t signal in-group enough for you.
I don’t consider “the title of this post is almost completely uninformative” to be a minor issue, nor do I consider “it doesn’t signal in-group enough” to be an issue at all. I know the author personally and she’s probably way more “in-group” than I am, I’d just prefer to see posts here with more informative titles, especially if they don’t pertain as directly to the main topics of the site.
(I was wondering if there was going to be a Big Rationalist Lesson at the end, since the title didn’t tell me it was just a scooter review.)
I agree that the title was uninformative and I support your right to feel its not quite central cannon content. At the same time I found the concept that it points at in terms of blind spots was valuable to me. Even with an unclear title.
I like this post in several respects but it doesn’t really feel like LW content to me, especially given the title.
We encourage people to post whatever seems interesting to them on their personal blog (which is, basically, the default-submit-post process at the moment). Mods move stuff to frontpage if it seems like a good fit.
Long-term information: the title of this article is how I remembered it to reference it five years later regarding a discussion of disability.
If the post wasn’t already LW content due to explaining some low-hanging fruit, it’s certainly LW content now that you’ve jumped on such minor points as the title because it doesn’t signal in-group enough for you.
I don’t consider “the title of this post is almost completely uninformative” to be a minor issue, nor do I consider “it doesn’t signal in-group enough” to be an issue at all. I know the author personally and she’s probably way more “in-group” than I am, I’d just prefer to see posts here with more informative titles, especially if they don’t pertain as directly to the main topics of the site.
(I was wondering if there was going to be a Big Rationalist Lesson at the end, since the title didn’t tell me it was just a scooter review.)
I think the Big Rationalist Lesson is “what adjustment to my circumstances am I not making because I Should Be Able To Do Without?”
I agree that the title was uninformative and I support your right to feel its not quite central cannon content. At the same time I found the concept that it points at in terms of blind spots was valuable to me. Even with an unclear title.