I don’t have an account there. (Unless you perhaps automatically get one when you register at LW?) I am not familiar with that community and their norms. Making a first post criticizing the community doesn’t seem like a good idea.
Much like politics, it may be general, but if you have exactly one example, and it’s topical and charged for (parts of) the audience, you’re generalizing wrong. This wasn’t a general post, it was a post about a specific EA community.
I’d rather this discussion stay on the EA forum.
I don’t have an account there. (Unless you perhaps automatically get one when you register at LW?) I am not familiar with that community and their norms. Making a first post criticizing the community doesn’t seem like a good idea.
Also, the problem is a bit more general, I think.
Why? It seems pretty general.
Much like politics, it may be general, but if you have exactly one example, and it’s topical and charged for (parts of) the audience, you’re generalizing wrong. This wasn’t a general post, it was a post about a specific EA community.