It would be nice if all this new understanding of the original luminosity posts also caused new upvoting of the original luminosity posts. Some of them are quite neglected-looking.
The original karma of those posts communicated an important message to you; they’re now linked from a highly visible and upvoted post; and you’re not hurting for karma. Why does it bother you if the old posts have low scores?
Voting up the old articles may mislead potential readers if the new article is a prerequisite. It is good that you linked it from the index page. It is also good that Apophenia’s cross-postings show up first in the comments. I’m not entirely sure how to interpret the general reaction, but I would edit the index to put more emphasis on this article.
Yes; I praised the first edit. If cousin_it is representative and the stories are prerequisites, then you should encourage people to read them first. If it they are merely useful, Apophenia’s comments may be adequately positioned. It would be quite a stretch to guess that cousin_it is representative, but people more generally are very positive about this article so it should probably be promoted more.
I don’t know how people will read this sequence in the future, even whether they will start with the index page, let alone how they will read the index page, but I suspect that they will stop reading when they get to the list of posts and not notice the link to SSS at the end.
Um… I don’t begrudge the karma, but will upvote each individual post as soon as I confirm that it works :-) I’m feeling very bad right now and quite desperate for something that would work.
It would be nice if all this new understanding of the original luminosity posts also caused new upvoting of the original luminosity posts. Some of them are quite neglected-looking.
The original karma of those posts communicated an important message to you; they’re now linked from a highly visible and upvoted post; and you’re not hurting for karma. Why does it bother you if the old posts have low scores?
Don’t you know? Less Wrong, like Wikipedia, is in reality an elaborate MMORPG.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AMMORPG
Voting up the old articles may mislead potential readers if the new article is a prerequisite. It is good that you linked it from the index page. It is also good that Apophenia’s cross-postings show up first in the comments. I’m not entirely sure how to interpret the general reaction, but I would edit the index to put more emphasis on this article.
You mean beyond the edit I already made to the index?
Yes; I praised the first edit. If cousin_it is representative and the stories are prerequisites, then you should encourage people to read them first. If it they are merely useful, Apophenia’s comments may be adequately positioned. It would be quite a stretch to guess that cousin_it is representative, but people more generally are very positive about this article so it should probably be promoted more.
I don’t know how people will read this sequence in the future, even whether they will start with the index page, let alone how they will read the index page, but I suspect that they will stop reading when they get to the list of posts and not notice the link to SSS at the end.
Edited.
Um… I don’t begrudge the karma, but will upvote each individual post as soon as I confirm that it works :-) I’m feeling very bad right now and quite desperate for something that would work.
*hugs*
Thanks! Okay, I won’t go for your waist this time