> Realistically, how does one hang a little sign that says “community space, feel welcome to engage”
I think literally just saying that at the beginning (or end) is actually pretty decent. (See my opening note for Musings on Doublecrux, which [I think not-entirely-coincidentally] got 70 comments)
LW2.0 has vague plans for a “shortform/informal” section, which might help address the issue, but honestly even if that worked it’d still leave the problem for Posts on the Front Page, where I’d like more comments to be regardless.
[Edit] Musing....
Something that occurs to me re: comment quality, though, is that if the site scales, it’s *fine* to raise the bar on what makes a “good enough comment.” For example, Slatestarcodex gets hundreds of comments each post. I wish it got less, since that’s too many to skim through. Slatestar posts on LW get… 3? (in part but I don’t think entirely because people comment on the original)
I’d prefer if LW-crossposts of Scott Alexander essays ended up in the 20-50 comment range, and stayed there, and as the number of people following on LW increased, people’s intuitive threshold for what’s-worth-posting increased so that we kept the 20-50 range.
> Realistically, how does one hang a little sign that says “community space, feel welcome to engage”
I think literally just saying that at the beginning (or end) is actually pretty decent. (See my opening note for Musings on Doublecrux, which [I think not-entirely-coincidentally] got 70 comments)
LW2.0 has vague plans for a “shortform/informal” section, which might help address the issue, but honestly even if that worked it’d still leave the problem for Posts on the Front Page, where I’d like more comments to be regardless.
[Edit] Musing....
Something that occurs to me re: comment quality, though, is that if the site scales, it’s *fine* to raise the bar on what makes a “good enough comment.” For example, Slatestarcodex gets hundreds of comments each post. I wish it got less, since that’s too many to skim through. Slatestar posts on LW get… 3? (in part but I don’t think entirely because people comment on the original)
I’d prefer if LW-crossposts of Scott Alexander essays ended up in the 20-50 comment range, and stayed there, and as the number of people following on LW increased, people’s intuitive threshold for what’s-worth-posting increased so that we kept the 20-50 range.