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Self help should be more like r/running. Less yak shaving, less armchair quarterbacking, more questions, kind answers, occasionally mindblowing advice.
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The subreddit has good rules. But I think there's something else to it: it's tied to a physical, measurable activity. Whereas discussion forums like LessWrong tend to devolve into places where people go to talk a lot and feel smart and not get much done.
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Tentatively generalisable observation: forums where norms are built around 'achieve real thing X' tend to have better discussions and more practice than those that do not.
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