”To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish.” What’s an obscure topic or not is a matter of perspective.
If you don’t want to deal with people who are curious about effective altruism asking questions, you can safely ignore such posts. Four people were willing to leave supportive and informative comments on the topic. The human touch may be as important as the information.
I edited my comments above because I worried what I originally wrote was too heated and I wanted to make a greater effort to be kind. I also worried I mistakenly read a dismissive or scolding tone in your original comment, and I would especially regret getting heated over a misunderstanding.
But your latest comment comes across to me as very unkind and I find it upsetting. I’m not really sure what to say. I really don’t feel okay with people saying things like that.
I think if you don’t want to interact with people who are newly interested in EA or want to get involved for the first time, you don’t have to, and it’s easily avoided. I’m not interested in a lot of posts on the EA Forum, and I don’t comment on them. If it ever gets to the point where posts like this one become so common it makes it harder to navigate the forum, everyone involved would want to address that (e.g. maybe have a tag for questions from newcomers that can be filtered out). For now, why not simply leave it to the people who want to engage?
”To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish.” What’s an obscure topic or not is a matter of perspective.
If you don’t want to deal with people who are curious about effective altruism asking questions, you can safely ignore such posts. Four people were willing to leave supportive and informative comments on the topic. The human touch may be as important as the information.
I edited my comments above because I worried what I originally wrote was too heated and I wanted to make a greater effort to be kind. I also worried I mistakenly read a dismissive or scolding tone in your original comment, and I would especially regret getting heated over a misunderstanding.
But your latest comment comes across to me as very unkind and I find it upsetting. I’m not really sure what to say. I really don’t feel okay with people saying things like that.
I think if you don’t want to interact with people who are newly interested in EA or want to get involved for the first time, you don’t have to, and it’s easily avoided. I’m not interested in a lot of posts on the EA Forum, and I don’t comment on them. If it ever gets to the point where posts like this one become so common it makes it harder to navigate the forum, everyone involved would want to address that (e.g. maybe have a tag for questions from newcomers that can be filtered out). For now, why not simply leave it to the people who want to engage?