“Posts” are usually “about themselves”. For example, SSC has posts with no comments section. For counter-examples, see posts like Reasonable Explanations—the author is interested in comments that fit a certain format, the body of the post has the rules for (top-level) comments, and the author posts a comment (that fits the format) as a starter.
This is a format for a “Discussion”. If an author includes both the rules and the starter in the “post” body, it’s still a “Discussion”. If the OP expounds an idea, and includes examples (usually of a certain form) and suggests people comment other things they think might be examples, that is both a “Post” and a “Discussion”.
The Monthly threads are of course “Discussion”-like, though they’re more free form—a “Discussion” with no rules*.
*Since this is LessWrong, both LessWrong’s rules apply, and ways people here prefer things be discussed—this is why “The Sequences” are emphasized. The second type, not being laid out in a short explicit set of rules are at times “broken”, leading to conflict.
“Posts” are usually “about themselves”. For example, SSC has posts with no comments section. For counter-examples, see posts like Reasonable Explanations—the author is interested in comments that fit a certain format, the body of the post has the rules for (top-level) comments, and the author posts a comment (that fits the format) as a starter.
This is a format for a “Discussion”. If an author includes both the rules and the starter in the “post” body, it’s still a “Discussion”. If the OP expounds an idea, and includes examples (usually of a certain form) and suggests people comment other things they think might be examples, that is both a “Post” and a “Discussion”.
The Monthly threads are of course “Discussion”-like, though they’re more free form—a “Discussion” with no rules*.
*Since this is LessWrong, both LessWrong’s rules apply, and ways people here prefer things be discussed—this is why “The Sequences” are emphasized. The second type, not being laid out in a short explicit set of rules are at times “broken”, leading to conflict.