Curious to know what people here think about the āunusual causesā tag.
This comes across to me as a bit deprecating so I was thinking that perhaps the name should be changed to something a bit more neutral. Perhaps ānon-standard-causesā. Or even something that might be biased the other way like āunderdiscussed-causesā.
Aaron Gertler gave the answer that
In my experience, āunusualā when applied to anything other than a person is a quite neutral term. Iād think of ānon-standardā as worse, since āstandardā implies quality in a way I donāt think āusualā does.
So Iād take his view over mine, since Iām not a native english speaker. Still, interested in what you think and what other alternatives are there.
Generally, I think that this tag could be very important for the discovery of new causes so I think that an appropriate name might be important
Iām also not a native English speaker; to my ears, āunusual causesā feels similar in connotation to ānon-standard causesā. What about simply āother causesā?
This feels good to me. One problem that may have (but Iām not sure about it) is that it might not capture new causes that are contained in another meta-cause. So for instance, the post about M-Risk is related to policy or x-risk, but is clearly a new cause by itself and yet it may feel inappropriate to vote on it as āother causesā.
Iām a native English speaker, and to me āunusual causesā and ānon-standard causesā feel similar in connotation, and neither strikes me as feeling deprecating. Though I can see how āunusualā could imply the cause is weird, whereas really we just want to say itās not usually discussed. āNon-standardā avoids that, but seems like an uncommon phrase.
Iām against āunder-discussedā, as that bakes in the judgement that this should be more discussed. Iād say the same about āOverlookedā or āNeglectedā. āLess discussed causesā or āLess commonly discussed causesā avoids that, but is perhaps a little long (though the former is only as long as āUnder-discussed causesā).
Iām a bit against āother causesā, though Iām less sure why. Maybe āotherā actually feels more deprecating to me, which is maybe in turn because Iāve been exposed to the term āThe Otherā in some social science courses.
Curious to know what people here think about the āunusual causesā tag.
This comes across to me as a bit deprecating so I was thinking that perhaps the name should be changed to something a bit more neutral. Perhaps ānon-standard-causesā. Or even something that might be biased the other way like āunderdiscussed-causesā.
Aaron Gertler gave the answer that
So Iād take his view over mine, since Iām not a native english speaker. Still, interested in what you think and what other alternatives are there.
Generally, I think that this tag could be very important for the discovery of new causes so I think that an appropriate name might be important
Iām also not a native English speaker; to my ears, āunusual causesā feels similar in connotation to ānon-standard causesā. What about simply āother causesā?
This feels good to me. One problem that may have (but Iām not sure about it) is that it might not capture new causes that are contained in another meta-cause. So for instance, the post about M-Risk is related to policy or x-risk, but is clearly a new cause by itself and yet it may feel inappropriate to vote on it as āother causesā.
Iām a native English speaker, and to me āunusual causesā and ānon-standard causesā feel similar in connotation, and neither strikes me as feeling deprecating. Though I can see how āunusualā could imply the cause is weird, whereas really we just want to say itās not usually discussed. āNon-standardā avoids that, but seems like an uncommon phrase.
Iām against āunder-discussedā, as that bakes in the judgement that this should be more discussed. Iād say the same about āOverlookedā or āNeglectedā. āLess discussed causesā or āLess commonly discussed causesā avoids that, but is perhaps a little long (though the former is only as long as āUnder-discussed causesā).
Iām a bit against āother causesā, though Iām less sure why. Maybe āotherā actually feels more deprecating to me, which is maybe in turn because Iāve been exposed to the term āThe Otherā in some social science courses.
My vote might be for āLess discussed causesā.