LessWrong Study Hall will be password-protected
post by tkadlubo · 2013-11-13T20:38:54.068Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 11 commentsThe community of the LessWrong Study Hall decided to protect access to the chatroom with a password. The password is: "lw".
Rationale: the LessWrong Study Hall started to have a serious trolling problem recently. As it grew in popularity it started to be automatically advertised on the tinychat.com main page, which attracts a demographics that has no idea about the goals of the Study Hall. We have no business dealing with those who seek online company to smoke weed and/or masturbate.
The password should be publicly available, and shown in plain text whenever the URL to the Study Hall is mentioned. The only users we want to exclude are the internet passers-by, who have literally no idea what that chatroom is about.
The password will be introduced in a day or two, after we inform all the regulars about the change.
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comment by trifith · 2013-11-13T21:15:24.864Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Your link to the study hall is broken. The study hall can be found here.
Replies from: Vladimir_Nesov↑ comment by Vladimir_Nesov · 2013-11-14T18:07:24.385Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Fixed.
comment by [deleted] · 2013-11-14T15:12:37.181Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
What is the Less Wrong Study Hall?
Replies from: Tenoke↑ comment by Tenoke · 2013-11-14T16:22:51.722Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
In short, it is a place where LessWrongers do Pomodoros constantly on a fixed schedule. Some people also have their cameras on so it can fell more social (and thus make it more binding). You can find it here and this is the doc in the topic of the Hall with further information.
comment by [deleted] · 2013-11-13T23:31:14.929Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I predict an increase (non-trolling) participation in the chat room after this.
Replies from: Jayson_Virissimo↑ comment by Jayson_Virissimo · 2013-11-14T00:31:09.607Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
What do you mean by participation? How would you measure that?
Replies from: None↑ comment by [deleted] · 2013-11-14T04:44:51.825Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Mean people-in-chat/hour.
Replies from: Jayson_Virissimo↑ comment by Jayson_Virissimo · 2013-11-14T04:47:36.738Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Are there any records available from before this post was made (I'm not just being difficult, I'm trying to make [and later score] my own predictions)?
Replies from: Lachouette↑ comment by Lachouette · 2013-11-19T10:26:22.636Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
No, unfortunately not. I don't know tinychat well, but I don't think data on that is available anywhere, so the only way to estimate it would be to ask people. (I also keep a list of new additions in the order I met them, so I can roughly say if there have been more or less new people around lately, but this is not accurate/complete/what you asked for.)
comment by Vladimir_Nesov · 2013-11-14T18:08:50.073Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
There should be a wiki entry for this.
comment by Lachouette · 2013-11-19T10:22:12.302Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
The password is in place now. If you know someone who does not frequent LW and might not have read this, please contact them.