As Jess Whittlestone said below, it is often the case that dissenters are much more likely to voice their dissent than agree-ers are to voice their agreement; so the comments on a Facebook group are not necessarily representative.
Edit: Also, if you ask pledgers what they think about the change, your audience necessarily excludes everyone who didn’t like how the pledge was written originally (because people who didn’t like the pledge didn’t sign it).
I think that depends strongly on the group. In some areas (programming, rationality, libertarianism, atheism) people love to disagree. In others (most charities, religions) people like agreeing. Indeed, in the origional article Eliezer discussed such communities. Given the frequency with which comments on this forum begin “Great Post!”, I think it’s credible that we might have a net pro-agreement bias.
As Jess Whittlestone said below, it is often the case that dissenters are much more likely to voice their dissent than agree-ers are to voice their agreement; so the comments on a Facebook group are not necessarily representative.
Edit: Also, if you ask pledgers what they think about the change, your audience necessarily excludes everyone who didn’t like how the pledge was written originally (because people who didn’t like the pledge didn’t sign it).
I think that depends strongly on the group. In some areas (programming, rationality, libertarianism, atheism) people love to disagree. In others (most charities, religions) people like agreeing. Indeed, in the origional article Eliezer discussed such communities. Given the frequency with which comments on this forum begin “Great Post!”, I think it’s credible that we might have a net pro-agreement bias.