Very sad news that two OB contributors are stepping away.
I find that the reason why Overcoming Bias is a great source of articles for me is that the articles there are without exception written by extremely sharp, clearly brilliant people with both an excellent brain and a top notch writing ability. The topics aren't what brings me there, it's the quality.
I don't think I'd bother reading a community powered Overcoming Bias... maybe I'm wrong, maybe I will read it, but it doesn't sound appealing at all.
Perhaps it's better to just reduce the posting frequency but keep the quality... as it is OB is too frequent for me to read everything, since each post requires careful thought and concentration to get the many points made within.
I think part of the problem you're perceiving is that the examples that come to mind for"web community"--reddit, digg, slashdot, something awful, kuro5hin, sensibleerection, .+chan, etc.--carry inherent bias and groupthink: in learning to overcome bias, they best serve as sources of what to avoid.
This site does, perhaps, better than any other non-dictatorial group at keeping discussion rational: even groups of open-source developers working toward a common goal often devolve into chaos if there's not a single, strong personality in charge.
I'm not sure what the optimal solutions are, but if the hypothesized OB community doesn't reach at least the very high bar set here, I wouldn't have much interest.
I find that the reason why Overcoming Bias is a great source of articles for me is that the articles there are without exception written by extremely sharp, clearly brilliant people with both an excellent brain and a top notch writing ability. The topics aren't what brings me there, it's the quality.
I don't think I'd bother reading a community powered Overcoming Bias... maybe I'm wrong, maybe I will read it, but it doesn't sound appealing at all.
Perhaps it's better to just reduce the posting frequency but keep the quality... as it is OB is too frequent for me to read everything, since each post requires careful thought and concentration to get the many points made within.