PSA: Our site culture is dropping.

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[–]wizzwizz4[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Definitely food for thought.

Perhaps we could have a little poll thing, and then articles like Part I of this this, and then polls afterwards, and see what happens to people's opinions. We'd have to A|B test it, and have to throw in a tonne of groups and things that we're not targeting with the pseudojournalism to avoid tipping people off… It could be like a competition: who can be the first to spot it? We could run multiple ones at once, and have the polling being constant and ongoing (like chat: in a little box on every page, asking for people's opinions on a scale of 0 to 10 with radio buttons) and it'd encourage people to think critically about everything they read here.

That isn't quite relevant, but it's close.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's not a bad idea, my hesitation would be that over-focusing on the rules as a site culture is going to lead to a rule-obsessed and legalistic site culture, and I'm not sure that's desirable. But that's probably one of the better approaches I've heard, I'll think it over some more

[–]wizzwizz4[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

over-focusing on the rules as a site culture is going to lead to a rule-obsessed and legalistic site culture,

If the rules we're religiously sticking to are the rules about how to have civil debates that are more likely to come up with the correct answers, I see no problem with having a rule-obsessed culture; it'll be a culture obsessed with coming up with the correct answers. However, this only follows for a pretty small subset of rules, so we mustn't get ahead of ourselves here.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You're right. I guess I mean it more in the sense of having a million rules, and the only people who care enough to keep track of them all are the anal-retentive people trying to create an authoritarian echo-chamber. That's what I saw on reddit again and again, so the less rules the better. Not that we can't have new rules, but if something is covered by the existing rules in any way we should work hard to not add more rules as long as the site culture isn't actually decaying. That's how I see it.

[–]wizzwizz4[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Oh… Sorry, I must've misread your argument; this one is much stronger than the one I thought you were saying. I guess that's why you're in charge.