It used to be what you did was post on one site and then manually crosspost to the other. This was annoying and somewhat error prone and you had to setup the links yourself by editing at least one post after it was published.
Automatic crossposting eliminates that mess, and it adds the nice feature of letting you know if there’s comments on the other site (since you don’t want to read the same thing twice but you might want to know about the conversation on the other site).
The feature is also fairly easy to ignore if you don’t like the other site, and there’s not a ton of cross posts so it’s not generating a lot of noise.
I guess if you don’t like Less Wrong it might feel annoying to see Less Wrong content on EAF, but honestly you were going to see it anyway, it just would have been less clearly labeled.
Crossposting has been a huge win in my opinion.
It used to be what you did was post on one site and then manually crosspost to the other. This was annoying and somewhat error prone and you had to setup the links yourself by editing at least one post after it was published.
Automatic crossposting eliminates that mess, and it adds the nice feature of letting you know if there’s comments on the other site (since you don’t want to read the same thing twice but you might want to know about the conversation on the other site).
The feature is also fairly easy to ignore if you don’t like the other site, and there’s not a ton of cross posts so it’s not generating a lot of noise.
I guess if you don’t like Less Wrong it might feel annoying to see Less Wrong content on EAF, but honestly you were going to see it anyway, it just would have been less clearly labeled.