I actually feel that Less Wrong leans too much this way to the point of vital conversations not happening outside of possibly the Bay Area. I don’t think you want meta to be the emphasis, but occasionally there should be community-level discussions. As an example, “Where does this community want to be in another year?”. I’m sure Light Cone discusses this internally, but I suspect this would be better if there was more community feedback.
I would be in favour of the Lightcone teaming driving the conversation. So figuring out what are the key issues that the Less Wrong community needs to discuss and starting a thread on that. If community members think something needs to be discussed, they can start their own threads, but they probably won’t be promoted to frontpage as per the present situation.
That does sure require me spending a lot of time driving conversations :P
It’s not a terrible idea, but I would sure love to find something that is more auto-moderated, so I don’t have to commit to a central coordinating role with a lot of my/Lightcone’s time.
I guess I see ensuring important conversations happening as a core function of the moderation team. And the most important conversations would occur only once every few months.
I actually feel that Less Wrong leans too much this way to the point of vital conversations not happening outside of possibly the Bay Area. I don’t think you want meta to be the emphasis, but occasionally there should be community-level discussions. As an example, “Where does this community want to be in another year?”. I’m sure Light Cone discusses this internally, but I suspect this would be better if there was more community feedback.
I actually agree. I just haven’t found a solution that strikes a better balance and prefer the LW over the EA Forum equilibrium.
I would be in favour of the Lightcone teaming driving the conversation. So figuring out what are the key issues that the Less Wrong community needs to discuss and starting a thread on that. If community members think something needs to be discussed, they can start their own threads, but they probably won’t be promoted to frontpage as per the present situation.
That does sure require me spending a lot of time driving conversations :P
It’s not a terrible idea, but I would sure love to find something that is more auto-moderated, so I don’t have to commit to a central coordinating role with a lot of my/Lightcone’s time.
I guess I see ensuring important conversations happening as a core function of the moderation team. And the most important conversations would occur only once every few months.