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Originally Posted by Supple Cow
I think the mere existence of this other forum in the context of being publicized here is damaging to the level of interactions here.
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(bolding is mine)... yes, I think you've hit on another nail here, SC. If the new forum had not been advertised here, and had simply been another new forum on the internet where people randomly found themselves through browsing, I think the results could be different.
But because it is being "advertised" here as being a place of anarchy, then we are getting a far different response to it than we would otherwise. People are drawn to it as a foil of TFP, and specifically for that purpose. Which means the sample is skewed. It's not going to have the chance to develop independently of TFP precisely because it's NOT independent of TFP, mostly because of this thread.