I disagree that it is “difficult to discuss rationally”. I agree that most discussions of political issues outside of this forum are emotionally driven, soldier mentality, ad hominem etc.
But EA forum participants have shown great restraint and depth in discussing a range of sensitive topics (as you acknowledge). I think we could provide a strong example of how this is done.
I guess the filtering should weigh the risk of things getting uncivil against the importance of the topic/area. Hot button social issues and things coming close to personal drama seem to have low importance. Politics seems to be high importance, to me.
It sounds like you agree it’s difficult, you just think EA Forum participants will successfully rise to the challenge?
Which idk, maybe, maybe not, seems high variance—I’m less optimistic than you. And making things personal blog posts makes them less visible to new forum users (hidden by default, I think?) but not to more familiar users who opt in to seeing personal blog posts, which seems great for higher quality conversations. So yeah, idk, ultimately the level of filtering here is very mild and I would guess net good
I need to consider the visibility of the personal blog posts. If they are really ~invisible one possibility could be combining politics with the community section.
I disagree that it is “difficult to discuss rationally”. I agree that most discussions of political issues outside of this forum are emotionally driven, soldier mentality, ad hominem etc.
But EA forum participants have shown great restraint and depth in discussing a range of sensitive topics (as you acknowledge). I think we could provide a strong example of how this is done.
I guess the filtering should weigh the risk of things getting uncivil against the importance of the topic/area. Hot button social issues and things coming close to personal drama seem to have low importance. Politics seems to be high importance, to me.
It sounds like you agree it’s difficult, you just think EA Forum participants will successfully rise to the challenge?
Which idk, maybe, maybe not, seems high variance—I’m less optimistic than you. And making things personal blog posts makes them less visible to new forum users (hidden by default, I think?) but not to more familiar users who opt in to seeing personal blog posts, which seems great for higher quality conversations. So yeah, idk, ultimately the level of filtering here is very mild and I would guess net good
I need to consider the visibility of the personal blog posts. If they are really ~invisible one possibility could be combining politics with the community section.