I always like seeing interesting ideas, but this one doesn’t resonate much for me. I have two concerns:
Does it actually make the site better? Can you point out a few posts that would be promoted under this scheme, but the mods didn’t actually promote without it? My naive belief is that the mods are pretty good at picking what to promote, and if they miss one all it would take is an IM to get them to consider it.
Does it improve things to add money to the curation process (or to turn karma into currency which can be spent)? My current belief is that it does not—it just makes things game-able.
I always like seeing interesting ideas, but this one doesn’t resonate much for me. I have two concerns:
Does it actually make the site better? Can you point out a few posts that would be promoted under this scheme, but the mods didn’t actually promote without it? My naive belief is that the mods are pretty good at picking what to promote, and if they miss one all it would take is an IM to get them to consider it.
Does it improve things to add money to the curation process (or to turn karma into currency which can be spent)? My current belief is that it does not—it just makes things game-able.
I think mods promote posts quite rarely other than via the mechanism of deciding if posts should be frontpage or not right?
Fair enough on “just IM-ing the mods is enough”. I’m not sure what I think about this.
Your concerns seem reasonable to me. I probably won’t bother trying to find examples where I’m not biased, but I think there are some.
Eyeballing the curated log, seems like they curate approximately weekly, possibly more than weekly.
Yeah we curate between 1-3 posts per week.
Curated posts per week (two significant figures) since 2018:
2018: 1.9
2019: 1.6
2020: 2
2021: 2
2022: 1.8
2023: 1.4