To be clear, we relatively routinely merge and move comment threads (as is common practice on most internet forums). 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. I would never delete a post like this, and have indeed not done so!
In this case I merged it with an existing comment section and just left this post as unlisted for convenience to leave this meta-discussion intact as a reference. My best guess is that it will get somewhat more visibility in the long-run as a result of being on the Said post, while getting a bit less visibility in the short run, and most importantly having it there will make it so that answers will be available to people who want to build a model of the Said comment discussion and the context of the previous discussion will be available to people reading this comment.
Feel free to start a shortform somewhere with discussion about me moving this, or continue discussion about the meta-level issue on the comment thread on the Said post. The visibility of the comments on this post will be very weird and kind of jank, since unlisted posts aren’t designed to have active discussion under them.
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.
To be clear, we relatively routinely merge and move comment threads (as is common practice on most internet forums). 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. I would never delete a post like this, and have indeed not done so!
In this case I merged it with an existing comment section and just left this post as unlisted for convenience to leave this meta-discussion intact as a reference. My best guess is that it will get somewhat more visibility in the long-run as a result of being on the Said post, while getting a bit less visibility in the short run, and most importantly having it there will make it so that answers will be available to people who want to build a model of the Said comment discussion and the context of the previous discussion will be available to people reading this comment.
Feel free to start a shortform somewhere with discussion about me moving this, or continue discussion about the meta-level issue on the comment thread on the Said post. The visibility of the comments on this post will be very weird and kind of jank, since unlisted posts aren’t designed to have active discussion under them.
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.
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