rDrama/files/templates/sidebar_TheMotte.html

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			<h4>What is this place?</h4>
			<p>
				This website is a place for people who want to move past shady thinking and test their ideas in a 
				court of people who don't all share the same biases. Our goal is to <a href="https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/03/framing-for-light-instead-of-heat/">
				optimize for light, not heat</a>; this is a group effort, and all commentators are asked to do their part.<br/><br/>

				The weekly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_war">Culture War</a> threads host the most 
				controversial topics and are the most visible aspect of The Motte. However, many other topics are 
				appropriate here. We encourage people to post anything related to science, politics, or philosophy; 
				if in doubt, post!<br/><br/>
				
				Check out <a href="https://www.vault.themotte.org/">The Vault</a> for an archive of old quality posts. 
				You are encouraged to crosspost these elsewhere.
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			<h4>Why are you called The Motte?</h4>
			<p>
				A motte is a stone keep on a raised earthwork common in early medieval fortifications. More pertinently, 
				it's an element in a rhetorical move called a "<a href="https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-brick-in-the-motte/">
				Motte-and-Bailey</a>", originally <a href="https://philpapers.org/archive/SHATVO-2.pdf">identified by</a> 
				philosopher Nicholas Shackel. It describes the tendency in discourse for people to move from a controversial 
				but high value claim to a defensible but less exciting one upon any resistance to the former. He likens 
				this to the medieval fortification, where a desirable land (the bailey) is abandoned when in danger for 
				the more easily defended motte. In Shackel's words, "The Motte represents the defensible but undesired 
				propositions to which one retreats when hard pressed."<br/><br/>

				On The Motte, always attempt to remain inside your defensible territory, even if you are not being pressed.
				
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            <h4><a href="/rules">Rules</a></h4>
			<ul>
				<li><a href="/rules#Courtesy">Courtesy</a>
					<ul>
						<li><a href="/rules#Kindness">Be Kind</a></li>
						<li><a href="/rules#Clarity">Make your point reasonably clear and plain. Try to assume other people are doing the same.</a></li>
						<li><a href="/rules#Antagonism">Be no more antagonistic than is absolutely necessary for your argument.</a></li>
						<li><a href="/rules#Charity">Be charitable.</a></li>
					</ul>
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				<li><a href="/rules#Content">Content</a>
					<ul>
						<li><a href="/rules#Effort">Avoid low-effort participation</a></li>
						<li><a href="/rules#Weakman">Do not weakman in order to show how bad a group is</a></li>
						<li><a href="/rules#Culture">Keep culture war in the culture war thread</a></li>
						<li><a href="/rules#Leave">Leave the rest of the internet at the door</a></li>
					</ul>
				</li>
				<li><a href="/rules#Engagement">Engagement</a>
					<ul>
						<li><a href="/rules#Disagreement">When disagreeing with someone, state your objections explicitly.</a></li>
						<li><a href="/rules#Evidence">Proactively provide evidence in proportion to how partisan and inflammatory your claim might be.</a></li>
						<li><a href="/rules#Timeouts">Accept temporary bans as a time-out, and don't attempt to rejoin the conversation until it's lifted.</a></li>
						<li><a href="/rules#Consensus">Don't attempt to build consensus or enforce ideological conformity.</a></li>
						<li><a href="/rules#Inclusion">Write like everyone is reading and you want them to be included in the discussion.</a></li>
					</ul>
				</li>
				<li><a href="/rules#The_Wildcard_Rule">The Wildcard Rule</a>
					<ul>
						<li><a href="/rules#Obnoxious">Don't be egregiously obnoxious</a></li>
					</ul>
				</li>
				<li><a href="/rules#The_Metarule">The Metarule</a>
					<ul>
						<li><a href="/rules#Sentiment">Moderation is very much driven by user sentiment. Feel free to report comments or message the mods with your thoughts.</a></li>
					</ul>
				</li>
			</ul>

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			<h4>Recommended Posts And Communities</h4>
			<ul>
				<li><a href="https://www.vault.themotte.org/">The Vault</a></li>
				<li><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/">Lesswrong</a></li>
				<li><a href="https://astralcodexten.substack.com/">Astral Codex Ten</a></li>
				<li><a href="https://www.slatestarcodex.com/">Slate Star Codex</a></li>
			</ul>

			<h4>Recommended Realtime Chats</h4>
			<ul>
				<li><a href="https://discord.gg/Hkyq5eN">Astral Codex Ten Discord</a></li>
				<li><a href="https://t.me/quokkas_den">Quokka's Den Telegram</a></li>
			</ul>
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