I notice myself being excited about this general idea but wary of this implementation: this might cause people to post more, which might rapidly create a situation where you don’t actually have the bandwidth to comment on literally everything, and the perfect might become the enemy of the good.
It might be safer to commit to commenting on N posts per day (maybe always commenting on the post with the least comments from the past day/week/month, or something).
Thanks for the feedback and the worries! I actually already added caveats to my original challenge, including giving me a bit more time to comment. This is easier for me to implement than a policy about the posts with the least comments or karma, because these things change. And I also like the challenge of reading beyond what I would usually read on LW.
On the effect of my challenge, I somehow doubt that just having me comment more will make everyone post more. That being said, there are indeed more posts these last few days than for many previous days. I leave myself some margin to not comment on everything if there are 30+ frontpage posts per day, but I don’t think we’re there yet.
I notice myself being excited about this general idea but wary of this implementation: this might cause people to post more, which might rapidly create a situation where you don’t actually have the bandwidth to comment on literally everything, and the perfect might become the enemy of the good.
It might be safer to commit to commenting on N posts per day (maybe always commenting on the post with the least comments from the past day/week/month, or something).
Thanks for the feedback and the worries! I actually already added caveats to my original challenge, including giving me a bit more time to comment. This is easier for me to implement than a policy about the posts with the least comments or karma, because these things change. And I also like the challenge of reading beyond what I would usually read on LW.
On the effect of my challenge, I somehow doubt that just having me comment more will make everyone post more. That being said, there are indeed more posts these last few days than for many previous days. I leave myself some margin to not comment on everything if there are 30+ frontpage posts per day, but I don’t think we’re there yet.