Raw feelings: I am kind of afraid of making reviews for LW. The writing prompt hints very high effort thinking. The vague memory of other people’s reviews also feel high effort. The “write a short review” ask doesn’t really counter this at all.
On thing to note is that “short reviews” in the nomination phase are meant to be basically a different type of object than “effort reviews.” Originally we actually had a whole different data-type for them (“nominations”), but it didn’t seem worth the complexity cost.
And then, separately: one of the points of the review is just to track “did anyone find this actually helpful?” and a short review that’s like “yep, I did in fact use this concept and it helped me, here’s a few details about it” is valuable signal.
Drive by “this seems false, because [citation]” also good)
It is nice to do more effortful reviews, but I definitely care about those types of short reviews.
Raw feelings: I am kind of afraid of making reviews for LW. The writing prompt hints very high effort thinking. The vague memory of other people’s reviews also feel high effort. The “write a short review” ask doesn’t really counter this at all.
Thank you!
Would it help if the prompt read more like a menu?
Yeah, and perhaps a couple examples of bare minimum / average / high quality review in the main post
On thing to note is that “short reviews” in the nomination phase are meant to be basically a different type of object than “effort reviews.” Originally we actually had a whole different data-type for them (“nominations”), but it didn’t seem worth the complexity cost.
And then, separately: one of the points of the review is just to track “did anyone find this actually helpful?” and a short review that’s like “yep, I did in fact use this concept and it helped me, here’s a few details about it” is valuable signal.
Drive by “this seems false, because [citation]” also good)
It is nice to do more effortful reviews, but I definitely care about those types of short reviews.