No one is explicitly giving a link to the rules or stating an answer otherwise so let me word out what I gathered from the nonverbal feedback.
I have received −7 agreement within a few minutes of posting this. Me assuming “when not defined it must be free game” was tagged as locally invalid and I can see how this is true.
In other words: English is the de facto language of the LessWrong forum if not only due to policy then at least due to custom.
I like the LW community and the feature of ForumMagnum/LW2 they developed a lot and I didn’t even knew one can tag logical fallacies.
I have a very specific goal in mind (not stated above) of publishing essays / longer ramblings that I sometimes happen to produce and usually pester my friends with. After considering a few alternatives I thought that this forum software is the most beautiful and most feature-rich place to post such things. The mismatch of language, tone, content and polish was something I was not sure how much of an issue it would be. The answer: yes it would be an issue.
Perhaps there’s a personal space similar to Confluence where can publish longer essays not related to LW at all for the time being I move my ramblings to mataroa.blog/ and use this account only for LW realted things
English is the de facto language of the LessWrong forum
The existing texts are in English, so naturally the website is visited by people who speak English.
I think you can post in German, but then most readers will not understand it. Are you okay with that? One problem is that if you won’t get a positive response, you will not know how much of that is because of the language, and how much is because of the content.
use this account only for LW realted things
Yeah, using a different language and post on topics unrelated to LW would definitely be a bad idea.
No one is explicitly giving a link to the rules or stating an answer otherwise so let me word out what I gathered from the nonverbal feedback.
I have received −7 agreement within a few minutes of posting this. Me assuming “when not defined it must be free game” was tagged as locally invalid and I can see how this is true. In other words: English is the de facto language of the LessWrong forum if not only due to policy then at least due to custom.
I like the LW community and the feature of ForumMagnum/LW2 they developed a lot and I didn’t even knew one can tag logical fallacies. I have a very specific goal in mind (not stated above) of publishing essays / longer ramblings that I sometimes happen to produce and usually pester my friends with. After considering a few alternatives I thought that this forum software is the most beautiful and most feature-rich place to post such things. The mismatch of language, tone, content and polish was something I was not sure how much of an issue it would be. The answer: yes it would be an issue.
Perhaps there’s a personal space similar to Confluence where can publish longer essays not related to LW at all for the time being I move my ramblings to mataroa.blog/ and use this account only for LW realted things
The existing texts are in English, so naturally the website is visited by people who speak English.
I think you can post in German, but then most readers will not understand it. Are you okay with that? One problem is that if you won’t get a positive response, you will not know how much of that is because of the language, and how much is because of the content.
Yeah, using a different language and post on topics unrelated to LW would definitely be a bad idea.