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Calling all Lurkers: Share your Dreams of Effortposting

It’s been pointed out recently that the topics discussed in the Culture War thread have gotten a bit repetitive. While I do think the Motte has a good spread on intellectual discussion, I’m always pushing for a wider range (dare I say diversity?) of viewpoints and topics in the CW thread.

I was a lurker for years, and I know that the barrier between having a thought and writing a top level comment in the CW thread can loom large indeed. Luckily I’m fresh out of inspiration, and would love to hear thoughts from folks about effortposts they want to write but haven’t gotten around to.

This of course applies to regulars who post frequently as well - share any and all topics you wish were discussed in the CW thread!

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Meta: I hope these effortposts are realized, and I hope they're not posted in the main CW thread.

Why do you hope they’re not in the CW thread?

I think CW thread posts get more engagement, and kinda prefer when non-CW related posts go in there, but idk.

The CW thread is fast-moving and a top-level post can sometimes fall off the bottom of the page once the post above attracts enough replies. These effortposts look like they're going to add a lot of intellectual variety to the discussion here, and I hope they'd attract enough discussion that we'd be sad to see them disappear before their time.

Interesting point. I'm moving my CW effortpost into a new thread, we'll see if it takes.

Kind of a waste to even have the ability to submit new threads in the first place if 99% of discussion takes place in the weekly stickies. It would be good to encourage people to submit more original threads to encourage more experimental types of posts, and topics that don’t necessarily fit under the umbrella of the CW.