It would be nice to have a separate place, organized by subject matter, to just read these insightful posts – TheEgosLastStand exists in just this one thread alone–to say nothing of the other QC posts in past CW threads. So much good thought, observation, introspection, etc. We really need to turn these QCs into a book or wiki or library of some kind. That was the /r/slatestarcodex CWRs at their best, and that’s the way we hope they will be remembered by the majority of people who participated in them. The CWRs were a place to broaden your understanding of a given topic by an iterative process of “Yes, but…” and for a place that boasted more than 15,000 participants, shockingly little drama ensued. Very little was solved, but I’m not sure that was really the point. There was no guarantee that your opinion would carry the day, but if you put in the effort, you could be assured a fair reading and cracking debate. The Culture War Roundup threads were blessedly neutral ground for people to test their premises and moral intuitions against a gauntlet of (sometimes-forced!) kindness and charity. And I find the best-of roundup an absolute must-read every week – yrrosimyarin I feel that, while practically ever criticism of the CW thread I have ever read is true, it is still the best and most civil culture war-related forum for conversation I have seen. Someone mentioned its accidental brilliance and I think that’s right-it catches a wonderful conversational quality I’ve never seen on the Internet, and I’ve been on the Internet since the 90s – werttrew There are conversations that have happened there that cannot be replicated elsewhere.
Some testimonials from participants:įor all its awfulness there really is something special about the CW thread. I will be honest and admit I rarely read the thread myself.īut in between all of that, there was some really impressive analysis, some good discussion, and even a few changed minds. There were some of the usual flame wars, point-scoring, and fanatics. It kind of did no politics discussion area ever goes really well. It became its own community, with different norms and different members from the rest of the board. The thread started getting thousands of comments per week, some from people who had never even heard of this blog and had just wandered in from elsewhere on Reddit.
Unexpectedly, the restriction to one thread kick-started the culture war discussions rather than toning them down. This achieved its desired goal: most of the subreddit went back to being about cognitive science and medicine and other less-polarizing stuff.
#Home protector plus liberty mutual reddit mod#
The moderators (and I had been added as an honorary mod at the time) decreed that all discussion of these topics should be corralled into one thread so that nobody had to read them unless they really wanted to.
As per the usual process, the topics that generated the strongest emotions – Trump, gender, race, the communist menace, the fascist menace, etc – started taking over. Several years ago, an SSC reader made an r/slatestarcodex subreddit for discussion of blog posts here and related topics.
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