Less Wrong (1.0, this site) is the historical LessWrong now in the process of being replaced by Less Wrong 2.0 which represents new leadership and new software. Technically, the LessWrong 2.0 is in public beta right now and it’s supposed to end soon. Once it ends, there will be a vote about replacing LW 1.0 with LW 2.0 and if it goes through, LW 1.0 will cease to exist. Its message archives will be migrated to LW 2.0.
I hadn’t heard about the vote part. Do we know the actual text of the measure under consideration? More importantly, who has standing to vote, and upon whom is the vote binding?
I don’t think the measure has actual text, but it’s a question on whether the LW 1.0 should close down and LW 2.0 should inherit the domain name and the posts archive. Any account on LW 1.0 with karma > X (I vaguely recall that X=1000) has a vote. If the vote fails, LW 1.0 goes into some kind of zombie mode.
Less Wrong (1.0, this site) is the historical LessWrong now in the process of being replaced by Less Wrong 2.0 which represents new leadership and new software. Technically, the LessWrong 2.0 is in public beta right now and it’s supposed to end soon. Once it ends, there will be a vote about replacing LW 1.0 with LW 2.0 and if it goes through, LW 1.0 will cease to exist. Its message archives will be migrated to LW 2.0.
I hadn’t heard about the vote part. Do we know the actual text of the measure under consideration? More importantly, who has standing to vote, and upon whom is the vote binding?
I don’t think the measure has actual text, but it’s a question on whether the LW 1.0 should close down and LW 2.0 should inherit the domain name and the posts archive. Any account on LW 1.0 with karma > X (I vaguely recall that X=1000) has a vote. If the vote fails, LW 1.0 goes into some kind of zombie mode.
Lw 1.0 users with a karma threshold. But the vote may change. If it’s obvious that 2.0 is going great, it might just keep going.
What if it’s not obvious that LW2.0 is going great, but it’s obvious that LW1.0 is dead?