Aw, but here on Less Wrong we barely ever have to deal with idiots and crazies, so it’s easy to be nice if you want to. Go to the richarddawkins.net or randi.org forums and look at who’s being extra-nice.
Is “idiots and crazies” really the best description of such users? It seems to me that these are mostly users who self-identify with some well-defined clusters of views, and that any ‘idiocy’ woud be well explained by their factional identity. This would be a political divide masquerading as simple disagreement: a difficult issue and well outside LW’s scope.
Aw, but here on Less Wrong we barely ever have to deal with idiots and crazies, so it’s easy to be nice if you want to. Go to the richarddawkins.net or randi.org forums and look at who’s being extra-nice.
Is “idiots and crazies” really the best description of such users? It seems to me that these are mostly users who self-identify with some well-defined clusters of views, and that any ‘idiocy’ woud be well explained by their factional identity. This would be a political divide masquerading as simple disagreement: a difficult issue and well outside LW’s scope.