I really don’t think you have to worry much about people hoarding posts. Like… it’s not that much money, people didn’t go wild this week. I’m pretty sure it induces more quality content than it would hold back. And if it was done post facto, then I can’t imagine people being motivated all year to post stuff just in case.
Maybe do one random week out of the year that’s ‘pay people for the next week’, and a different random week out of the year that’s ‘pay people for the previous week’?
I think there’s something good about both ideas, and I’m imagining that if it happens multiple times per year and is sometimes retrospective, then it will feel less tempting to hold out for the next prospective week.
Or, you could announce it halfway through the week! So you’d retroactively pay for the last half week then they didn’t know, and then also pay them for the upcoming half week while they do know.
Data point: I can see it influencing my own decisions of when to post. Not sure to what extent, but the effect would be there. It could even be in the form of less urgency to finish a post cause “oh well, not finishing it quickly might actually be a good thing, if it makes me post it in a good heart week instead”. But making it retrospective does seem to solve the problem.
The first thing I posted during Good Heart week was from a conversation I had with someone a couple weeks ago. While saying it, I had the fleeting thought that it could make a good LW post, but I didn’t even write that thought down. GH week caused me to remember that and actually write the post. The second thing came from me deliberately deciding to write another post for GH week, so I looked up a list I keep of possible LW post ideas, and pulled my favorite one from there.
In contrast, I’ve been working on what I hope will become a major post or a sequence for a few weeks, and I didn’t even try to push any of it out during Good Heart, because getting it right is too important to me.
I am hoping you guys do this again!
I really don’t think you have to worry much about people hoarding posts. Like… it’s not that much money, people didn’t go wild this week. I’m pretty sure it induces more quality content than it would hold back. And if it was done post facto, then I can’t imagine people being motivated all year to post stuff just in case.
Maybe do one random week out of the year that’s ‘pay people for the next week’, and a different random week out of the year that’s ‘pay people for the previous week’?
I think there’s something good about both ideas, and I’m imagining that if it happens multiple times per year and is sometimes retrospective, then it will feel less tempting to hold out for the next prospective week.
Or, you could announce it halfway through the week! So you’d retroactively pay for the last half week then they didn’t know, and then also pay them for the upcoming half week while they do know.
Data point: I can see it influencing my own decisions of when to post. Not sure to what extent, but the effect would be there. It could even be in the form of less urgency to finish a post cause “oh well, not finishing it quickly might actually be a good thing, if it makes me post it in a good heart week instead”. But making it retrospective does seem to solve the problem.
Noted.
To give you a related anecdatapoint;
The first thing I posted during Good Heart week was from a conversation I had with someone a couple weeks ago. While saying it, I had the fleeting thought that it could make a good LW post, but I didn’t even write that thought down. GH week caused me to remember that and actually write the post. The second thing came from me deliberately deciding to write another post for GH week, so I looked up a list I keep of possible LW post ideas, and pulled my favorite one from there.
In contrast, I’ve been working on what I hope will become a major post or a sequence for a few weeks, and I didn’t even try to push any of it out during Good Heart, because getting it right is too important to me.
Sweet, glad to hear it!
(For redundancy: getting datapoints like this is a key part of how I make decisions re: the site, thanks for your comment.)