Scott Alexander says he spent about five years blogging on LiveJournal and one or two years posting on LessWrong before launching his own blog.

“The way I got through this is I blogged for, I think like eight to ten years on LiveJournal before,”

“no it was less than that, it's more like five years on LiveJournal before ever starting a real blog. I blogged on, I posted on LessWrong for like a year or two before getting my own blog. I got...”