Note that LW gets 1-2 OOM fewer comments on the average post, but not in total. I reckon monthly comments is same OOM. And if you add up total word count on each site I suspect LW is 1 OOM bigger each month. ACX is more focused and the discussion is more focused, LW is a much broader space with lots of smaller convos.
That makes a lot of sense. I do get the feeling that, although total volume on a particular topic is more limited here, that there’s a sense of conversation and connection that I don’t get on ACX, which I think is largely due to the notification system we have here for new comments and messages.
This is weekly comments for LessWrong over the last year. Last we counted, something like 300 on a SSC post? So if there are two SSC posts/week, LessWrong is coming out ahead.
I think ACX is ahead of LW here. In October, it got 7126 comments in 14 posts, which is over 1600/week. (Two of them were private with 201 between them, still over 1500/week if you exclude them. One was an unusually high open thread, but still over 1200/week if you exclude that too.)
In September it was 10350 comments, over 2400/week. I can’t be bothered to count August properly but there are 10 threads with over 500 comments and 20 with fewer, so probably higher than October at least.
Not too far separate though, like maybe 2x but not 10x.
(E: to clarify this is “comments on posts published in the relevant month” but that shouldn’t particularly matter here)
Note that LW gets 1-2 OOM fewer comments on the average post, but not in total. I reckon monthly comments is same OOM. And if you add up total word count on each site I suspect LW is 1 OOM bigger each month. ACX is more focused and the discussion is more focused, LW is a much broader space with lots of smaller convos.
That makes a lot of sense. I do get the feeling that, although total volume on a particular topic is more limited here, that there’s a sense of conversation and connection that I don’t get on ACX, which I think is largely due to the notification system we have here for new comments and messages.
This is weekly comments for LessWrong over the last year. Last we counted, something like 300 on a SSC post? So if there are two SSC posts/week, LessWrong is coming out ahead.
I think ACX is ahead of LW here. In October, it got 7126 comments in 14 posts, which is over 1600/week. (Two of them were private with 201 between them, still over 1500/week if you exclude them. One was an unusually high open thread, but still over 1200/week if you exclude that too.)
In September it was 10350 comments, over 2400/week. I can’t be bothered to count August properly but there are 10 threads with over 500 comments and 20 with fewer, so probably higher than October at least.
Not too far separate though, like maybe 2x but not 10x.
(E: to clarify this is “comments on posts published in the relevant month” but that shouldn’t particularly matter here)