The guidelines above are primarily about what kind of content we will delete, not about the exact ways we are going to list the content on the frontpage.
This is a Personal Blog post, which the guide states “Are not displayed by default on the homepage”, unlike Frontpage posts which “Are displayed by default to all users”. Therefore, unlisting my post does not affect the homepage, but it does prevent it from showing up on my user profile.
I would never delete a post like this, and have indeed not done so!
Yes, I appreciate that. The fact remains that I would like to post this on my Personal Blog, which you are not allowing.
My best guess is that it will get somewhat more visibility in the long-run as a result of being on the Said post
I very much doubt it will get more visibility in the long-run. Also, since I am not the author of the comment on the Said post, I will not be notified of replies to it.
Feel free to start a shortform somewhere with discussion about me moving this
I plan to do this within the next couple of days. We can continue the discussion there.
Therefore, unlisting my post does not affect the homepage, but it does prevent it from showing up on my user profile.
Personal blogposts show up both in recent discussion, and of course get included in the homepage feed of everyone who has enabled seeing personal blogposts. The naming here is kind of terrible, so I am pretty sympathetic to the confusion, but personal blogposts get a pretty substantial amount of frontpage/homepage traffic.
I very much doubt it will get more visibility in the long-run.
If we can find an operationalization, I would take a bet. I expect that Said post to get traffic for many years.
“I very much doubt it will get more visibility in the long-run.”
I came here from the discussion, and expect that i wouldn’t if it wasn’t a comment there. i don’t know if I’m typical, but it’s evidence toward habryka’s claim.
Well, sort of. Your comment provides evidence for habryka’s claim compared to a counterfactual of 0 commenters finding their way here from that thread, but it provides evidence against hybryka’s claim compared to a counterfactual of 2 or more commenters finding their way here from that thread.
Overall rate of engagement remains low. It was stuck at 11 comments for 21 days before your comment, and has been stuck at 47 karma for at least the last 19 days. Karma and comments are imperfect proxies of readership, but they are what we have. In the counterfactual world where this post wasn’t unlisted, I expect engagement would have been far higher.
yeah, I don’t try to overstate the evidence. but it was the rare case where me being here provided evidence, so it was worth to give it. . I assume you already have access to information about the people who read posts in LW in real time. and people who read old good posts (and then mostly don’t comment, because everyone moved on) and encounter site news randomly and with half a year of delay, are less visible by nature. so i expect people who don’t do that to underestimate out number :-)
(also, in the comments to Said-was-banned post there was a person who didn’t read all the post and assume everyone else didn’t, too. so maybe I’m over-correcting for typical mind fallacy here. at least, it definitely encouraged my to write this comment.)
This is a Personal Blog post, which the guide states “Are not displayed by default on the homepage”, unlike Frontpage posts which “Are displayed by default to all users”. Therefore, unlisting my post does not affect the homepage, but it does prevent it from showing up on my user profile.
Yes, I appreciate that. The fact remains that I would like to post this on my Personal Blog, which you are not allowing.
I very much doubt it will get more visibility in the long-run. Also, since I am not the author of the comment on the Said post, I will not be notified of replies to it.
I plan to do this within the next couple of days. We can continue the discussion there.
Personal blogposts show up both in recent discussion, and of course get included in the homepage feed of everyone who has enabled seeing personal blogposts. The naming here is kind of terrible, so I am pretty sympathetic to the confusion, but personal blogposts get a pretty substantial amount of frontpage/homepage traffic.
If we can find an operationalization, I would take a bet. I expect that Said post to get traffic for many years.
(Just subscribe to comments via the triple-dot menu)
“I very much doubt it will get more visibility in the long-run.”
I came here from the discussion, and expect that i wouldn’t if it wasn’t a comment there. i don’t know if I’m typical, but it’s evidence toward habryka’s claim.
Well, sort of. Your comment provides evidence for habryka’s claim compared to a counterfactual of 0 commenters finding their way here from that thread, but it provides evidence against hybryka’s claim compared to a counterfactual of 2 or more commenters finding their way here from that thread.
Overall rate of engagement remains low. It was stuck at 11 comments for 21 days before your comment, and has been stuck at 47 karma for at least the last 19 days. Karma and comments are imperfect proxies of readership, but they are what we have. In the counterfactual world where this post wasn’t unlisted, I expect engagement would have been far higher.
yeah, I don’t try to overstate the evidence. but it was the rare case where me being here provided evidence, so it was worth to give it. . I assume you already have access to information about the people who read posts in LW in real time. and people who read old good posts (and then mostly don’t comment, because everyone moved on) and encounter site news randomly and with half a year of delay, are less visible by nature. so i expect people who don’t do that to underestimate out number :-)
(also, in the comments to Said-was-banned post there was a person who didn’t read all the post and assume everyone else didn’t, too. so maybe I’m over-correcting for typical mind fallacy here. at least, it definitely encouraged my to write this comment.)