1. At an object level, I don’t think I’ve noticed the dynamic particularly strongly on the EA Forum (as opposed to eg. social media). I feel like people are generally pretty positive about each other/the EA project (and if anything are less negative than is perhaps warranted sometimes?). There are occasionally low-quality critical posts (that to some degree reads to me as status plays) that pop up, but they usually get downvoted fairly quickly.
2. At a meta level, I’m not sure how to get around the problem of having a low bar for criticism in general. I think as an individual it’s fairly hard to get good feedback without also being accepting of bad feedback, and likely something similar is true of groups as well?
1. At an object level, I don’t think I’ve noticed the dynamic particularly strongly on the EA Forum (as opposed to eg. social media). I feel like people are generally pretty positive about each other/the EA project (and if anything are less negative than is perhaps warranted sometimes?). There are occasionally low-quality critical posts (that to some degree reads to me as status plays) that pop up, but they usually get downvoted fairly quickly.
2. At a meta level, I’m not sure how to get around the problem of having a low bar for criticism in general. I think as an individual it’s fairly hard to get good feedback without also being accepting of bad feedback, and likely something similar is true of groups as well?