Possibly just random? There’s a feedback effect where if LW is quiet one day, there’s less to respond to the next day so it is likely to remain quiet—so I think smallish random fluctuations can easily produce week-long droughts or gluts.
More and more people have drifted away and not been replaced by active posters. There are still a few topics around more traditional LW topics but not attracting much discussion. The most active discussions seem to be around a single member whose attempts at disruption have been entirely successful at multiple levels. Some of the more prolific remaining are judged, via downvotes and commentary, to be of low quality, and little contentful discussion ensues. There are still a few debates or arguments outside meta topics but they are mostly covering familiar ground.
LW is not a well kept garden any longer, one may wonder whether it is even a garden. LW2.0 is often mentioned as a glorious future but it’s looking pretty bleak around LW1.0 in the present.
Lesswrong.com and the facebook group were very quiet this week. (The slack doubled in volume to be around 18k messages this week)
Any ideas why?
Possibly just random? There’s a feedback effect where if LW is quiet one day, there’s less to respond to the next day so it is likely to remain quiet—so I think smallish random fluctuations can easily produce week-long droughts or gluts.
More and more people have drifted away and not been replaced by active posters. There are still a few topics around more traditional LW topics but not attracting much discussion. The most active discussions seem to be around a single member whose attempts at disruption have been entirely successful at multiple levels. Some of the more prolific remaining are judged, via downvotes and commentary, to be of low quality, and little contentful discussion ensues. There are still a few debates or arguments outside meta topics but they are mostly covering familiar ground.
LW is not a well kept garden any longer, one may wonder whether it is even a garden. LW2.0 is often mentioned as a glorious future but it’s looking pretty bleak around LW1.0 in the present.
As with many areas; The future could not come soon enough.
Maybe students in some universities have midterms?