The EA Forum has recently had some very painful experiences where members of the community jumped to conclusions and tried to oust people on very flimsy evidence, and now we’re seeing people upvote who are sick of the dynamic.
LessWrong commenters did a better job of navigating accusations, waiting for evidence, and downvoting low-quality combativeness. People running off half-cocked hasn’t had as disastrous effects, so there aren’t as many people there who are currently sick of it.
The discrepancy between this post’s net karma here (171) and on LessWrong (19) is striking.
So is the number of comments here (5 at time of this comment) vs. there (69).
The EA Forum has recently had some very painful experiences where members of the community jumped to conclusions and tried to oust people on very flimsy evidence, and now we’re seeing people upvote who are sick of the dynamic.
LessWrong commenters did a better job of navigating accusations, waiting for evidence, and downvoting low-quality combativeness. People running off half-cocked hasn’t had as disastrous effects, so there aren’t as many people there who are currently sick of it.