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C'mon. I know you're being mildly facetious, but "naysayers" and contributors aren't nearly so cleanly segregated. And debate often leads to important decisions
by thunk 16y ago
C'mon. I know you're being mildly facetious, but "naysayers" and contributors aren't nearly so cleanly segregated. And debate often leads to important decisions that can't just be coded away.
- jrockway 16y agoMost of the time, the long discussions aren't about anything important. Nobody cares how you build your nuclear reactor, but everyone wants to debate the color of the bikeshed.
- thunk 16y agoSometimes they aren't, sometimes they are. Something about babies and bathwater. The ideal online debate platform would algorithmically marginalize bikeshedding.
- pg 16y ago"The ideal online debate platform would algorithmically marginalize bikeshedding." That is a great sentence, in both senses. It's hard to do, though YC does have several features for this, and they seem to work to some extent.
- chromatic 16y agoThat's true, but it's easy to see the point at which a long discussion turns unproductive. Unfortunately, that's usually easiest in retrospect.