For what it’s worth, I’ve never felt that—but I’ve not posted a lot of actual posts, and maybe if that were my point of comparison (as opposed to commenting elsewhere) I might feel differently.
With the personal-blog category of posts, I think there’s a lot lower barrier to the main site, so less need for the open threads. I don’t think that translates to low-status, but I’m a bad indicator of status—I’ve been here for over a decade and never made a top-level post. I’m just a comment kind of guy, I guess.
I don’t think it’s a problem even if it’s true. It’s better when people feel drawn to write more thought out post because they perceive that as higher status.
Does anyone else get the sense that it feels vaguely low-status to post in open threads? If so I don’t really know what to do about this.
For what it’s worth, I’ve never felt that—but I’ve not posted a lot of actual posts, and maybe if that were my point of comparison (as opposed to commenting elsewhere) I might feel differently.
With the personal-blog category of posts, I think there’s a lot lower barrier to the main site, so less need for the open threads. I don’t think that translates to low-status, but I’m a bad indicator of status—I’ve been here for over a decade and never made a top-level post. I’m just a comment kind of guy, I guess.
I don’t think it’s a problem even if it’s true. It’s better when people feel drawn to write more thought out post because they perceive that as higher status.
I have a similar sense, used to kinda endorse it, but now think I was wrong and would like to fix it.